Václav Kalivoda, the recording for the Memory of Nations, Humpolec, February 2022

Václav Kalivoda, the recording for the Memory of Nations, February 2022

Simon Panek in 2010

Simon Panek in 2010

Šimon Pánek

Petr Váňa in 2020

Petr Váňa in 2020

Petr Váňa while chiseling the sandstone for the Marian Column

Placement of the Virgin Mary statue onto the Marian Column in 2020

Placement of the Virgin Mary statue onto the Marian Column on Old Town Square in 2020

The Marian Column on Old Town Square, night photograph from 2020

Petr Váňa in 2000, when he worked on the Marian Column

Sandstone for the Marian Column in a quarry in India (left) and after its extraction (right)

A ship with sandstone parts for the Marian Column after arriving at the Charles Bridge in Prague

A series of archive images of the Marian Column. The image above show the Marian Column in its original form, the image on the bottom left shows a gathering of a crowd at the Marian Column, and the image on the bottom right shows the Marian Column immediately after its demolition.

The stones for the Marian Column arrived in Prague on the Vltava river in 2019

Petr Váňa (bottom) with his colleagues during the final adjustments of the Marian Column on Old Town Square

The statue of the Virgin Mary on Old Town Square right before being placed onto the Marian Column (2020)

Petr Váňa with the parts for the Marian Column

At the beginning of the 21st century, Petr Váňa works on the statue of the Virgin Mary for the Marian Column (image on the left). Detail of the Virgin Mary's face (image on the right)

Matěj Forman helped Petr Váňa with the transport of the column to Prague (image on the left). Petr Váňa (fifth from the left) with his colleagues and friends on a chiseled shaft for the Marian column (image on the right)

A double photo of the blessing of the stone from which the Marian Column was formed

Chiseling of the stone, from which the shaft for the Marian Column was formed. Detail of the stonework on the left, stonemasons on the right, Petr Váňa in the front

The double photo captures the group that contributed to the creation of the Marian Column

Image of the Marian Column in December 2020, when the first snow of the year covered the Old Town Square