Czernin Palace
The Czernin Palace stands as Prague’s largest Baroque palace, a formidable symbol of Bohemian aristocratic power that has housed state diplomacy for centuries. Commissioned in the 1660s by Humprecht Jan Czernin, the Habsburg ambassador to Venice and Rome, its design was entrusted to Swiss-Italian architect Francesco Caratti, with construction beginning in 1669 and continuing through the early 1670s. The palace’s grand interiors feature Italian-style plasterwork, crafted by plasterers such as Giovanni Maderna and Giovanni Battista Cometa, later succeeded by Francesco Peri and Antonio Travelli as the work progressed. Built on a site acquired in 1666 from the debt-laden House of Lobkowicz, Czernin Palace embodies the shift of Prague’s political energy toward centralized diplomacy in the Baroque era. …
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