Art Nouveau

Prague was the home of art Nouveau artist Albert Muche.  The hotel room was decorated with a print.  A Municipal building is home to some of his art 

and so is the cathedral at the palace.  The Muche window at the Prague Palace Cathedral depicts events important to the introduction of Christianity to the Slavs.  It shows St. Cyril and St. Theodocius (sp?) and their stories flanking the story of St. Ludmilla and her posterity accepting Christianity.

Art Nouveau influences showed up in the iron work in various places, this one in Lviv.

In Cracow there was a most beautiful church decorated in an Art Nouveau style with interiors too dark for pictures.  The walls flowered and flowed with pansy's and daffodils and lilies.  It was incredible.  The window below is from that church - St. Francis, I think it was.  The window depicts creation and is much better than the picture I took of it.  The model for the creator was a beggar from the streets of Cracow.  That touched me - to think that even the most beggarly of us have been created in the image of a divine being and in this case the creation was turned upside down to create an image of the divine using the image of man.

On our way into town from the train station on a Sunday morning we were stopped by a beggarly man.  He knew who we were - most likely because David and Nathan were wearing their white shirts.  He didn't know us but he knew something about us because of how we are dressed.  What do we know about one another because we are in the image of God?