Jean Baptiste Mathey
Jean Baptiste Mathey (also: Jean -Baptiste Mathey, also: Matthew Burgundus; * about 1630 in Dijon (); † December 1695 in Paris? ) Was a French painter and architect of the Baroque in Bohemia.
Life
Little is known about Jean Baptiste Mathey origin and childhood. About 1655 he was in Rome, where he was first formed in the vicinity of Claude Lorrain painter and probably also pursued architectural studies.
On Lorrain's recommendation, he joined in 1668 as a painter in the service of Königgrätzer Bishop Johann Friedrich von Waldstein, who was appointed in the same year, Grand Master of the Cross with the Red Star. After his appointment as Archbishop of Prague, followed him Mathey 1675 to Prague, where soon the Archbishop's Palace was built according to his plans at the Prague Castle. Construction began on August 17, 1675 and lasted until the end of 1679th The construction management was up to the builder Francesco Lurag. Other contributors were Hofsteinmetzmeister Francesco della Torre and Giovanni Battista Passerini with their teams. The next 20 years Mathey worked as an architect mainly in Prague.
Although in 1684 acquired the citizenship of the Lesser Town, he could not be a member of the guild master builder, as he was not a trained master mason. Therefore, he could not form apprentices, and in the realization of his designs, he was largely excluded from the Engineer. Nevertheless he had great importance for the further development of architecture in Bohemia, Silesia, and Austria. Beginning with his early works, he sat down significantly from the early baroque forms of the northern Italian architect Carlo Lurag to new ideas and realized from the Italian and French Baroque architecture, which are characterized by a clear structure and well-balanced proportions. When his work is considered the outstanding principal for Count Wenceslas Adalbert built by Sternberg Troja Castle.
1695 undertook Mathey a trip to France and died in the same year in Paris.
Works in Prague
- Archbishop's Palace, design; Construction by Francesco Lurag
- Riding school for Emperor Leopold I.
- Tuscan Palace ( formerly Palace Thun- Hohenstein )
- Strahov Monastery, design for remodeling and baroquisation
- Troja Castle, design; Construction by Silvestro Carlone
- Kreuzherrenkirche ( Prague), drafts; Construction by Giovanni Domenico Canevale
- Church of the Virgin Mary at the Kajetanern ( Kostel Panny Marie Kajetánů u ); Johann Blasius Santini Aichl
Works in other places
- Castle Dux: Expansion and Baroque reconstruction
- Jičínowes: Plans for the baroque castle
- Oberleutensdorf, designs the parish church of St. Michael ( Kostel sv. Michala )
- Plaß: Prelature and Baroque reconstruction of the St. Wenceslas Church
- Wroclaw: Design for the reconstruction of the monastery of the Cross with the Red Star (after secularization in 1810 from 1819 to 1945 Catholic St Matthias High School, now Ossolonineum, Szewska )