Chapel of St. John the Baptist

The late Gothic Chapel of St. John the Baptist was built around 1414. Originally it served as the chapter library, and there are still reminders of this in the inscriptions on the walls in the western part.

The chapel is decorated with late Gothic and Early Renaissance wall paintings. The epitaph of the Olomouc canon Václav of Moštěnice is painted on the southern wall. It depicts the Risen Christ, before whom are the deceased canon, the Virgin Mary, John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist. On the eastern wall is the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, and on the north wall is Christ, who appeared to the Virgin Mary after the resurrection. The vault of the chapel is filled by paintings of angels with the instruments of Christ's torture and the Olomouc and other patrons. The chapel also preserves two Early Renaissance tombstones. The tombstone of Václav of Moštěnice is in the southern wall. Opposite it is the tombstone of the armoured knight Arnošt Kužel from Žeravice, who was a generous patron of the cathedral.

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From the chapel, we return to the Cloister, in the western part of which is a spiral staircase leading to the Romanesque Bishop's Palace.