Kaple Sv. Anny / Chapel of St. Anne - Panenské Brežany (Central Bohemia)
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Charming Baroque Chapel of St. Anne (Kaple Sv. Anny), hidden in the park of Upper Chateau (Horní zámek) in village Panenské Brežany, belongs among most beautiful works of famous architect of radical Czech Baroque style Jan Blažej Santini-Aichl.
Waymark Code: WMNMWA
Location: Středočeský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 04/06/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member puczmeloun
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Charming Baroque Chapel of St. Anne (Kaple Sv. Anny), hidden in the park of Upper Chateau (Horní zámek) in village Panenské Brežany, belongs among most beautiful works of famous architect of radical Czech Baroque style Jan Blažej Santini-Aichl.

St. Anne chapel, built in park of summer residence of Prague' Benedictine nuns, was comissioned by abbess Francesca Helena Pieroni de Galiano. The chapel, designed by Jan Blažej Santini-Aichl and constructed by master builder Filip Spannbrucker, was erected in 1705-1707. The chapel' vestry was added later, in 1738. Because chapel was a new structure, Santini-Aichl was not limited in his artistic ideas and he fully developed here all typical attributes of his architectural work. Chapel' ground plan is isosceles triangle with beveled corners and concave bented walls, which is in two-storeyed interior completed by a complicated system of interconnected circles and pentagons. Typical are also diversed shapes of windows, galleries and ballustrades betraying Gothic inspirations. And exactly this Gothic-Baroque architectural expression is a child of genial architect Jan Blažej Santini-Aichl...

Chapel, administered together with adjacent Upper Chateau by Regional Museum of Prague-East (Oblastní muzeum Praha-východ), is currently under general reconstruction.

Style: Baroque

Type of building (structure): Large religious building (church, monastery, synagogue...)

Date of origin:: 1705–1707

Architect(s): Jan Blažej Santini-Aichl

Web site of the object (if exists): [Web Link]

Address:
Kaple Sv. Anny Horní zámek Hlavní ulice 250 70 Panenské Břežany Czech Republic


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