Beuronská kaple, Renaissance Revival chapel at Gymnázium Teplice, Czech Republic.
The Beuron Chapel is a Renaissance Revival prayer room located within a school building and stands out for its painted interior walls. The entire space features religious imagery applied directly onto plaster using a specific fresco technique that covers both the walls and ceiling.
The chapel was acquired by the Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo in 1865. Between 1888 and 1889 Benedictine monks who had moved from Beuron to Prague's Emauzy monastery painted the interior, led by the Swiss monk Lucas Steiner. In 1931 Antonín Vrbík repainted parts of it, and from 1950 the space served as a vegetable store for the Prior chain.
The chapel's name comes from the Beuron Art School of the Benedictines who painted it in 1888–1889, and the congregation's double dedication to the Holy Family and St Charles Borromeo appears in the facade and interior decoration. Since 2018 the Teplice Grammar School has used the space for exhibitions, concerts and lectures open to the public.
The space can be visited on certain days during the school year, with access times varying by season. It makes sense to check ahead about when visits are possible since the location depends on school activities.
The Last Judgment fills the whole altar wall, a placement matched in Central Europe only by Michelangelo's fresco in the Sistine Chapel. Unlike that model, the Teplice version replaces hell with purgatory, leaving souls hope of forgiveness before entering heaven.
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