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Jaroslava Muchová Syllabová (15 March 1909 – 9 November 1986) was a Czech painter, the daughter of painter
As a child she studied ballet, but eventually followed in the footsteps of her father: she assisted in the creation of the ''Slav Epic'' by mixing colours and tracing detail studies onto the giant canvases ready for painting. She was responsible for painting the entire starry sky of ''Slavs in their Original Homeland: Between the Turanian Whip and the sword of the Goths'' ( cs, Slované v pravlasti: Mezi turanskou knutou a mečem Gótů). She also modelled for several of the figures that appear in the series.
After World War II, she took on the restoration of works from the ''Slav Epic'' that had been damaged by frost and water when they were stored away to hide them from the Nazis.
Alphonse Mucha pictured her on the reverse of the first Czechoslovak ten koruna banknote from 1919, and later on the 1929 50 koruna banknote.Mucha p. 267
She died 9 November 1986 in Prague,
Jaroslava Muchová Syllabová (15 March 1909 – 9 November 1986) was a Czech painter, the daughter of painter Alphonse Mucha
Alfons Maria Mucha (; 24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939), known internationally as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist, living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, best known for his distinctly stylized and decorat ...
and the sister of writer and translator Jiří Mucha.
Biography
Muchová was born in New York on 15 March 1909 her parents were in the United States while her father tried unsuccessfully to raise funds to support his project ''The Slav Epic
''The Slav Epic'' ( cs, Slovanská epopej) is a cycle of 20 large canvases painted by Czech Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha between 1910 and 1928. The cycle depicts the mythology and history of Czechs and other Slavic peoples. In 1928, af ...
'' ( cs, Slovanská epopej).
As a child she studied ballet, but eventually followed in the footsteps of her father: she assisted in the creation of the ''Slav Epic'' by mixing colours and tracing detail studies onto the giant canvases ready for painting. She was responsible for painting the entire starry sky of ''Slavs in their Original Homeland: Between the Turanian Whip and the sword of the Goths'' ( cs, Slované v pravlasti: Mezi turanskou knutou a mečem Gótů). She also modelled for several of the figures that appear in the series.
After World War II, she took on the restoration of works from the ''Slav Epic'' that had been damaged by frost and water when they were stored away to hide them from the Nazis.
Alphonse Mucha pictured her on the reverse of the first Czechoslovak ten koruna banknote from 1919, and later on the 1929 50 koruna banknote.Mucha p. 267
She died 9 November 1986 in Prague, Czechoslovakia
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, common_name = Czechoslovakia
, life_span = 1918–19391945–1992
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