Cloister

This part of the permanent exhibition is accessible only from early May to the end of September. The tour includes the Gothic Cloister, where we are now, the Gothic Chapel of St. John the Baptist and the remains of the Romanesque Bishop's Palace on the 1st floor.

The Gothic cloister was built during the rebuilding of St. Wenceslas Cathedral in the second third of the 14th century. The building had to make way for the original Romanesque arched corridor destroyed by fires. However, two peripheral walls from the Romanesque area have been preserved on the ground floor - the northern one is to the left of the entrance and the west wall is connected to it, which is now only partially accessible.

At the entrance, on the left is the northern branch of the corridor, where we see a cycle of wall paintings showing the Last Judgment, the Annunciation, the Adoration of the Magi, the Adoration of the Shepherds, and two epitaphs of the Olomouc canons. In the eastern branch we find the Crucifixion, Lamentation, Resurrection, and the Suffering of Christ. The paintings originate from the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries and are the work of several artists.

The fresco of the Adoration of the Magi, with traces of the influence of the German giant Albrecht Dürer, is considered a masterpiece.

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From the cloister we can enter the chapel of St. John the Baptist.