‘Wings of Glory’ is one of the city’s major art exhibitions of the year, housed appropriately at Prague’s foremost private gallery space, the Rudolfinum. This national shrine, one of the country’s proudest achievements of the nation-building 19th-century, could hardly be better host for Krídla slávy. Epic works that romanticise and glorify ideas of state, homeland and identity fill the high-ceilinged rooms. It’s hard not to get swept up in the fervour, looking at depictions of angels and war heroes, wise founding fathers and impossibly redolent landscapes. French nationalist painting is also featured extensively.
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