Sternberg Palace
Sternberg Palace, or Šternberský palác, is a Renaissance-to-Baroque palace that anchors Prague’s central narrative of aristocratic life and political history. Built after 1698 for Václav Vojtěch of Šternberk, the site preserves the legacy of the Sternberg family in a Baroque guise. The building’s southern wing remained unfinished until it was completed between 1835 and 1842 by Jan Novotný, shaping its final silhouette. Architectural authorship is debated; Giovanni Battista Alliprandi is among the names most frequently linked to the project, though Domenico Martinelli and Jan Santini Aichel are also mentioned in scholarship. In the 19th century, the palace passed into public hands when the Society of Patriotic Friends of Art acquired it in the early 1880s, after they had been displaced from the Czernin Palace. …
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