The Hussite King Jiri of Podebrad: Treaties are to be Observed - 1923
In the 1430's Rome was forced to accept the Hussite demands and end their Crusades into Slavic territory. When the Czech elected the native born Juri if Podebrandy in 1458, the opportunity to entrench their independence arose. He visited Rome in 1462 to obtain Papal approval to his election but was rebuffed and returned to Prague in the company of Cardinal Fantin who was explain the position to the Czechs. The mural shows the Cardinal in the meeting Hall of the Royal Apartments in the Old Town of Prague, demanding that the King submits to Rome's authority. The King was to reply that 'On this earth I do not accept anyone as a judge of my conscience'. The boy at the front has closed a book which bears the title 'Roma finita', a development which means, to Mucha, the birth of new religious light and freedom symbolised by the sun pouring in through the Gothic window.