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259Imperial Architect: Background 12 Hubala 1985; Griessenbeck 2014, pp. 92–98 (Kaceřov), 115–118 (Kralovice), 121–127 (Nelahozeves). example in Bohemia was Florian Griespek von Griespach, secretary of the Bo- hemian Kammer, the financial authority of that kingdom, who had built two large country houses in the new manner: the very precocious Kaceřov, begun around 1540 [Figs. 5.10–5.11], and Nelahozeves, from 1553 onward; later he was to commission Bonifaz Wolmut’s extraordinary church at Kralovice [below, Ch. 5.4, Fig. 5.85].12 By the latter date Ferdinand’s two eldest sons, Archdukes Maximilian and Ferdinand, became active as patrons and showed their preference for the new manner in the two hunting lodges they commissioned at Vienna and Prague, respectively, the so-called Grünes Lusthaus in the Prater near Vienna, and the star-shaped hunting-lodge Hvězda on the White Mountain near Prague [ below, Ch. 5.2 and 5.3]. Apart from fortification, the architectural patronage of Ferdinand i himself was primarily directed towards the completion of some of his grandfather’s projects: chief among these was the splendid tomb for Maximilian i now in the Innsbruck Hofkirche. This church was built for this specific purpose in a late- Gothic manner, but with a portal in the classicizing style of the North-Italian early Renaissance [Fig. 5.12–51.3]. Beyond that, his commissions were mostly practical adaptations and extensions of his residences, chiefly the Castle at Prague and the Vienna Hofburg. But even here Ferdinand’s taste for a classi- cal style can sometimes be discerned. As early as 1536 Ferdinand employed at Figures 5.10–5.11 Paolo della Stella? or Bonifaz Wolmut? the castle at Kaceřov, Bohemia; built 1540–1560 for Florian Griespek von Griespach, façade and arcade of the courtyard.