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291Imperial Architect: Background 66 Tanner described the location of Maximilian’s Lusthaus as ‘ad Puteum cervinum’, ‘am Hirschbrunnen’. The drawings of Hvězda are in Vienna, önb-hs, Cod. min. 108; as is Špan’s poem, Cod. 9902 (with a provenance from Ferdinand’s library at Ambras); on Hvězda, see now Dobalová/ Hausenblasová / Muchka 2014; also Simons 2009, pp. 99–130, which sup- plies the earlier bibliography, and Dobalová 2009, pp.203–213; Tanner’s description of the Prater hunting lodge: Brevis Et Dilucida Domini Dom. Maximiliani Inclyti Regis Bohemiae et Archiducis Austriae ec. Viennae Ad Danubii Ripas Et Diaetae Seu Amoenarii Ad Puteum that Maximilian and Ferdinand built their hunting lodges in Vienna and Prague at exactly the same time, in 1555, and in a very similar situation. The location of the Grünes Lusthaus was indicated as ‘Ad Puteum Cervinum’, ‘at the deer fountain’, i.e. in a hunting preserve, while Hvězda was built in what was called a ‘Tiergarten’, likewise an animal and game preserve. Though ex- cept for its cruciform plan we do not know exactly what the Prater Lusthaus looked like—it was replaced in 1781–83 by the still existing pavilion designed by Isidore Canevale—it is clear that both hunting lodges are similar in concep- tion and both were richly decorated. Most striking is perhaps that both were carefully documented at the time. The designs of Hvězda mentioned earlier were carefully copied in a set of presentation drawings [Figs. 5.22–5.24; 5.55] and the complex was described in a Latin poem by Vavřinec Špan ze Španova, Ferdinandopyrgum. Maximilian’s Lusthaus was documented in a learned, Lat- in treatise by a Vienna lawyer and Greek scholar, Georg Tanner, illustrated by plans of its gardens by Bonifaz Wolmut [Figs. 5.54 and 5.65–5.69].66 Figure 5.54 Plan of the Grünes Lusthaus, built 1555–57 for Maximilian ii in the Prater just outside Vienna; detail from the plan inserted in Georg Tanner’s description (1557). Figure 5.55 Plan of Hvězda, ground floor; presentation drawing by unknown Italian draughtsman after an autograph by Archduke Ferdinand, 1555.