Jean Baptiste Mathey

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Jean Baptiste Mathey (also: Jean-Baptiste Mathey ; also: Matthaeus Burgundus ; * around 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's origins and childhood. Around 1655 he was in Rome, where he initially trained as a painter in the circle of Claude Lorrain and probably also undertook architectural studies.

On Lorrain's recommendation, in 1668 he entered the service of Bishop Johann Friedrich von Waldstein , Bishop of Königgrätz , who was also appointed Grand Master of the Lords of the Cross with the Red Star in the same year . After his appointment as Archbishop of Prague, Mathey followed him to Prague in 1675, where the Archbishop's Palace on the Hradschin was soon built according to his plans. Construction work began on August 17, 1675 and lasted until the end of 1679. Construction management was the responsibility of the builder Francesco Lurago. Other participants were court stone masons Francesco della Torre and Giovanni Battista Passerini with their teams. For the next 20 years, Mathey worked as an architect mainly in Prague.

Although he acquired citizenship of the Lesser Quarter in Prague in 1684 , he could not become a member of the builders' guild because he was not a trained master mason. That is why he was unable to train apprentices, and he was largely excluded from construction management when his designs were implemented. Nevertheless it was of great importance for the further development of architecture in Bohemia, Silesia and Austria. Even with his first works he clearly set himself apart from the early baroque forms of the northern Italian master builders around Carlo Lurago and realized new ideas of Italian and French baroque architecture, which are characterized by clear structures and balanced proportions. The Trója Castle , built for Count Wenzel Adalbert von Sternberg , is considered to be his outstanding masterpiece .

In 1695, Mathey went on a trip to France and died that same year in Paris.

Works in Prague

  • Archbishop's Palace, draft; Construction carried out by Francesco Lurago
  • Riding school for Emperor Leopold I.
  • Tuscan Palace ( formerly Palais Thun-Hohenstein )
  • Strahov Monastery , design for reconstruction and baroque transformation
  • Troja Castle , draft; Construction carried out by Silvestro Carlone
  • St. Joseph's Church ( Kostel sv. Josefa ), together with Abraham Paris
  • Kreuzherrenkirche (Prague) , drafts; Construction carried out by Giovanni Domenico Canevale
  • Church of the Virgin Mary among the Kajetans ( Kostel Panny Marie u Kajetánů ); with Johann Blasius Santini-Aichl

Works in other places

  • Dux Castle : Extension and Baroque renovation
  • Jičínowes : plans for the baroque castle
  • Oberleutensdorf , designs for the parish church of St. Michael ( Kostel sv. Michala )
  • Plaß : prelature and baroque reconstruction of St. Wenceslas Church
  • Breslau : Draft for the new building of the monastery of the Kreuzherren with the Red Star (after the secularization in 1810 from 1819–1945 Catholic St. Matthias High School, now Ossolonineum , ul. Szewska)

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Milada Vilímková, Johannes Brucker: Dientzenhofer. A Bavarian master builder family in the baroque era . Rosenheim 1989, ISBN 3-475-52610-7 , p. 80.
personal data
SURNAME Mathey, Jean Baptiste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mathey, Jean-Baptiste; Burgundus, Matthew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter and baroque architect
DATE OF BIRTH around 1630
PLACE OF BIRTH Dijon , France
DATE OF DEATH December 1695
Place of death Paris