Jan Santini Aichel

Jan Blazej Santini -Aich [e ] l (also: Giovanni Santini -Aich [e ] l; Czech: Jan Blazej Santini, * February 4, 1677 in Prague, † December 7, 1723 ) was a Czech architect and painter of the late Baroque.

Family and career

Jan Santini - Aichl came from an immigrant in 1650 from northern Italy to Bohemia Steinmetz family. His training as a painter, he was probably at Christian Schröder. The subsequent years of travel have taken him to Holland, England, Italy and Vienna. In 1703 he settled as an architect in Prague and acquired in 1705, the Prague citizen. In 1707 he married Veronica Elizabeth, daughter of his now deceased teacher Christian Schröder.

His clients were mostly religious institutions and noble families from Bohemia and Moravia. In addition to Kilian Ignaz Dietzenhofer he was one of the outstanding architects of the late Baroque Bohemia. In his buildings, he combined Baroque and Gothic style elements and thus created the style known as Baroque Gothic.

After his death at the age of only 47 years, some of its buildings remained unfinished. In the stables of the former Cistercian monastery in Saarland at the Sazau there is a memorial to him.

Objects that belong to the UNESCO World Heritage Site

  • Monastery Sedlec, Kutna Hora: Monastery Church (1703-1710, together with Paul Ignaz Bayer)
  • Sanctuary Zelena Hora: Church of Sts. John of Nepomuk ( 1720-22 )

Other works

In Prague

  • Morzin Palace (now the Ministry of Foreign Affairs )
  • Nostic Palais ( Nostický palác )
  • Schönborn Palace ( Schönbornský palác )
  • Thun- Hohenstein Palace
  • St. Gallus Church ( Kostel svatého Havla ): entrance facade
  • Church of St. Mary of the Assumption and the Emperor Charlemagne, Karlshof: Baroque style of the interior

In other places

  • Bad Bielohrad: Reconstruction of the castle into a baroque palace
  • Karlova Koruna castle (together with Franz Maximilian Kanka )
  • Humpolec: Baroque reconstruction of the Deanery Church of St. Nikolai
  • Castle Jaroměřice: Church of the Raising of the Cross
  • Sanctuary Křtiny: Plans for the Sanctuary
  • Kladruby: Monastery Church of St. Mary
  • Hradec Kralove: former Jesuit College (along with Paul Ignaz Bayer); Rear facade of the bishop's residence
  • Sanctuary Mariánská Týnice
  • Castle Zbraslav: convent building ( completed by Franz Maximilian Kanka )
  • Kopidlno: Church of St. Jacob
  • Monastery Plasy: Baroque style of the monastery and plans for the convent building ( completed by Kilian Ignaz Dietzenhofer )
  • Abbey Rajhrad: monastery
  • Radešín, reconstruction of the castle, 1706-1710
  • Saar at the Sazau: Reconstruction of the Monastery Church of the Assumption
  • Monastery Seelau: Baroque style of the monastery church Nativity of Mary and the monastery buildings
  • Střílky, Okres Kroměříž Cemetery Chapel
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