Johann Christoph Handke ( cs, Jan Kryštof Handke; 18 February 1694 in

Rýmařov Rýmařov (; german: Römerstadt) is a town in Bruntál District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 8,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone. ...

– 31 December 1774 in

Olomouc Olomouc (, , ; german: Olmütz; pl, Ołomuniec ; la, Olomucium or ''Iuliomontium'') is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 99,000 inhabitants, and its larger urban zone has a population of about 384,000 inhabitants (2019). Located on t ...

) was a baroque painter from

Moravia Moravia ( , also , ; cs, Morava ; german: link=yes, Mähren ; pl, Morawy ; szl, Morawa; la, Moravia) is a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic and one of three historical Czech lands, with Bohemia and Czech Silesia. The m ...

. He was the brother-in-law of the painter

Joseph Ignatz Sadler Joseph Ignatz Sadler (17 February 1725 – 9 January 1767) was a Czech painter. Life Sadler was born in Olomouc, and primarily painted religious-themed frescoes. acting especially in Moravia, for example the frescoes on the ceiling of the church ...

. He made frescos as well as

oil painting Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on wood panel or canvas for several centuries, spreading from Europe to the rest of ...

Works

Regimini militantis Ecclesiae.jpg, Fresco of ''Approving of bylaw of Society of Jesus'' depicting

Ignatius of Loyola Ignatius of Loyola, S.J. (born Íñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola; eu, Ignazio Loiolakoa; es, Ignacio de Loyola; la, Ignatius de Loyola; – 31 July 1556), venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Spanish Catholic priest and theologian, ...

receiving papal bull '' Regimini militantis Ecclesiae'' from Pope Paul III, painted in Church of Our Lady of the Snow in Olomouc after 1743 Kaple Boziho tela in Olomouc.jpg,

Illusionistic ceiling painting Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective ''di sotto in sù'' and ''quadratura'', is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which ''trompe-l'œil'', perspective tools such as foreshortening, an ...

in Chapel of Corpus Cristi in Olomouc Albrecht II von Sternberg.jpg, Oil painting of Albrecht von Sternberg in Augustinian monastery in Šternberk

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