Karel Škréta

1610–1674 · Baroque

Karel Škréta Šotnovský of Závořice was a Czech painter who worked in the Baroque style. He was mostly a portrait painter and painter of altarpieces. He lived through the Thirty Years' War which caused him some hardships as a Protestant which led him to leave Prague for Saxony and then Italy.

13 paintings

• The mocking of Christ (1630)
• Franz Anton Hovora Count Berka of Dubá and Lipá and Aloisia Ludovica Anna de Montecuccoli as Paris and Helena (1670)
• Portrait of a Miniature Painter
• The Birth of Saint Wenceslas (1640)
• Portrait of Humprecht Johann Count Czernin of Chudenice (1628-1682) (1655)
• Portrait of a man with blond hair (1649)
• Portrait of Maria Maximiliana von Sternberg (1641 - 1665) (1665)
• Porträt des Bernard Ignat von Martinice (1700)
• Portrait of Count Johann Hartwig Graf Nostitz-Rieneck (1610-1683) (1672)
• The Maltese Bernhard de Witte (1651)
• Portrait of the Gem-Cutter Dionysius Miseroni and His Family (1653)
• Saint Wenceslaus. (1650)
• Saint Gregory (1644)