In the context of St. Charlemagne (Master Theodoric), analyze the The relationship of Emperor Charles IV to Charlemagne of the Description and classification.
The restorer of the Holy Roman Empire was of special importance to Emperor Charles IV, who traced his lineage back to the Přemyslid dynasty and Charlemagne. He showed him boundless respect and considered him a model of a good and just ruler and his patron. He conceived his coronation as Holy Roman Emperor in the Carolingian Chapel in Aachen in 1349 as a religious pilgrimage to the holy relics and brought the relics of Charlemagne to Prague. Later, he had a Gothic choir with a chapel of St. Wenceslaus added at Aachen, where he donated precious goldsmith's reliquaries. In 1351, he founded the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and St. Charlemagne in Prague's New Town, on an unusual octagonal plan, inspired by the chapel at Aachen. Charles IV kept the coronation treasure of the Holy Roman Empire, which included relics as well as the 11th-century imperial crown associated with the veneration of Charlemagne.In 1453-1454, Charles IV summoned the Italian priest and papal legate Giovanni de' Marignolli to Prague to compile a chronicle of the Roman Empire and a genealogy of the Luxembourg family. Master Theodoric's paintings were preceded by a gallery of figures of monarchs, including Charlemagne, painted in 1355-1360 in the main hall of the Imperial Palace at Karlštejn by the Master of the Luxembourg Family Tree (destroyed before 1597). According to the report of Jan of Hazmburk, the palace at Prague Castle was similarly decorated (paintings were destroyed in a fire in 1541).
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