Abstract
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Iconographic sources depicting Thirty Years’ War battlefields in the Czech lands can be found in historical graphic works printed in the most comprehensive documentary publication of the 17</span><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> century, the Theatrum Europaeum. In this publication, the year 1647 is one of the richest in terms of the number of engravings depicting the course of the war. In addition, the Swedish campaign of the same year left behind the most numerous and best preserved traces in the landscape of the Czech lands. The paper focuses primarily on engravings related to war events at the locations of Cheb, Třebel and Teplá. It presents interim results of interdisciplinary research of these iconographic sources, which involves the tools of spatial analyses, digital terrain modelling and also new possibilities of airborne laser scanning data processing. The main aims of the research, which are also being implemented, are the confirmation of depicted localities and their localization; analyses of the scale and geometrical precision of displayed landscape; estimates of visibility and methods of creating the source materials for engravings; and a detailed comparison with other contemporary or current cartographic sources. </span></p>
Highlights
Research of the transformed landscape of the Thirty Years’ War in today’s Czech Republic combines the methods of archaeology, history and art history with methods of digital cartography and geographical information systems
A special scientific research program was launched for the study of iconographic sources of the Thirty Years’ War in today’s Czech Republic
In order to identify the various elements of an engraving, the engraving must first be put into historical context
Summary
Research of the transformed landscape of the Thirty Years’ War in today’s Czech Republic combines the methods of archaeology, history and art history with methods of digital cartography and geographical information systems. Significant iconographic sources depicting the battlefield of the Thirty Years’ War include the graphic works printed in the publication Theatrum Europaeum, an extensive documentary work of the 17th century first printed in 1633 in Frankfurt by the publishing house of Basil native Matthäus Merian (1593–1650). In addition to extensive descriptive chapters (written in German), these publications contain an extremely valuable illustrative apparatus It records the prominent figures of the time, provides numerous “vedutas” of cities, and contains maps and other depictions of significant events including military battles. Study of available maps and sources depicting various locations of the Thirty Years’ War may provide valuable information on the state and development of the landscape, settlements, and significant buildings, and the military and tactical elements in use at the time. The project of the systematic multi-disciplinary study of iconographic sources primarily used raster images of the engravings created by the specialized workplaces of libraries, archives and other institutions
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