“Hvězda” in Prague as a Classical Villa

• Authors: Bažant Jan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In 1555–1558, the villa Hvězda (Star) in Prague was designed and built by Archduke Ferdinand, vice-regent of the kingdom of Bohemia and the son of Ferdinand I, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor from 1558. The architecture of the villa is highly unusual, because it is designed on a hexagonal ground plan. Nevertheless, it was modeled on Italian villas “all’antica”. It is a centrally-planned building with rooms grouped around a central “atrium”, all connected so that they form a kind of ambulatory.

Keywords

EN

villa; Renaissance; Bohemia; Prague; villa Star (“Hvězda”)

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Eirene. Studia Graeca et Latina
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 49
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 155-175

Contributors

author

Bažant Jan