Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria. A second-born son in renaissance Europe

0554184 - ÚDU 2022 AT eng M - Monography Chapter
Uličný, Petr
The architecture of Prague Castle during the governorship of Archduke Ferdinand II (1547–1567). How to read it?
Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria. A second-born son in renaissance Europe. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2021 - (Dobalová, S.; Hausenblasová, J.), s. 169-192. Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse, 909. ISBN 978-3-7001-8501-7
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA17-25383S
Institutional support: RVO:68378033
Keywords : renaissance architecture * Prague Castle * Ferdinand II of Austria (of Habsburg) * Bonifaz Wolmut * Hans Tirol
OECD category: Arts, Art history

This essay examines the circumstances leading to the realization of individual buildings at Prague Castle during the regency of Ferdinand II and traces his role in it. It shows that the creation of each project was very complicated, and the archduke’s role was relatively limited. The lack of finances played the main role and probably also king’s desire to realise relatively austere buildings in the castle grounds, which is especially the case with the archduke’s palace by the White Tower, which lagged far behind contemporary noble palaces in the castle and its surroundings. Much more room seems to have been given to the archduke in the field of leisure architecture; during his regency, a second storey added to the Summer Palace in the Royal Garden, and it can be assumed that, as with the Star Summer Palace, the archduke may have been actively involved in its design.
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