Vale? – A Composed Landscape of the Baroque

The composed landscape of the palace at Vale? (Vale? v ?echách, Karlovarský kraj), provides an excellent laboratory for exploring the development of the Baroque period in the Czech Republic.  The style which emerged during this period, the Bohemian Baroque, is an understudied period in both architecture and cultural landscape development.  While it was strongly influenced by the Italian Baroque and French Formal precedents, it developed as a distinctive style reflective of the region’s political, social, religious and cultural history.