Czech battle over art nouveau epic by Alphonse Mucha
BBC News
2010-08-11
A fierce legal struggle is under way in the Czech Republic over the fate of 20 enormous paintings by Alphonse Mucha, creator of the style known as art nouveau. The paintings – entitled the Slav Epic – have spent the last half a century hanging in a chateau in the Moravian town of Moravsky Krumlov. But officials in Prague now want them moved to the capital.