The entrance portal of Tovačov Chateau (district Přerov, Central Moravia) is one of the most important early Renaissance artworks in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown. The portal’s frieze preserves an inscription with the name of the tower’s client, where the portal is situated. The inscription includes the year “1492,” so many Czech and foreign art historians believe the whole portal was executed during that year. Since around 2013, however, several art historians have expressed doubts that the portal’s preservation is authentic, mainly because many of its parts are still preserved in astonishingly sharp relief (such as the egg and dart on the archivolt, the acanthus in the spandrels, and the composite capitals of the demi-columns). The portal was renovated and adapted according
to the design of Viennese architect Max Fleischer no later than 1889. In 1905, Fleischer published a text describing the reconstruction of the Tovačov Chateau. In the article, the author analyses not only the portal and its state of
preservation but also the old texts from the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century describing the portal (or at least the frieze) with the inscription and date “1492.” Based on these texts, and on the considerable
difference in the state of preservation of the portal’s concrete parts, the author concludes that only the frieze with the inscription 1492 dates from that year. The lower part of the portal (demi-columns, spandrels, archivolt, etc.)
was executed in the late sixteenth century and renovated in the nineteenth century by Max Fleischer.