A collection of fourteen exceptional tempera paintings on wood panels, characteristically called the Capuchin Cycle, is on long-term loan to the National Gallery in Prague. It is exhibited in the permanent exhibition of medieval art in the Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia.
between 1410-21, permanent exhibition of the NGP

The Capuchin cycle is a well-known set of panel paintings from the lower phase of the so-called beautiful style, or international gothic. It depicts busts of Christ, the Virgin Mary, St. John the Baptist and the apostles. It is not entirely clear how the panel paintings were originally arranged; they probably formed a Byzantinizing iconostasis. Byzantine influences here blend impressively with the beautiful style. The typology of the faces of the figures in the Capuchin cycle is often linked to the Ambras Sketchbook – a set of 56 small-format drawings on 14 wooden plates, originally from the collections of Ferdinand II of Tyrol. The author of the sketchbook probably inspired the type and composition of the apostolic heads of the Capuchin cycle, which are similar in terms of their degree of simplification. There is also an obvious connection with the older layer of beautiful style painting, especially with the work of the Master of the Třeboň Altarpiece.

NGP, permanent exposition  Medieval Art in Bohemia and Central Europe 1200–1550

14 paintings, tempera on wood panels, between 1410-21