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261Imperial Architect: Background 15 From the documents it transpires that Ferdinand’s ‘Orator’ or envoy had been involved in engaging Paolo della Stella and his assistants. Obviously the envoy would have been very much aware of the Palazzo del Principe. In view of the close resemblance between the Palazzo del Principe and the Prague Summer Palace the architectural model Della Stella brought with him from Genoa either documented Doria’s residence itself, or was a new design strongly inspired by it. The top floor, inspired on Bramante’s Tempietto as illus- trated in Serlio’s Forth Book, was added only twenty years later; it was probably the result of the deliberations of Hans von Tirol, who was in charge of construction, and Pietro Ferrabosco and Bonifaz Wolmut, who had come from Vienna, presided over by Archduke Ferdinand, as Lord-lieutenant of Bohemia representing his father; cf. Lynch 2017. Ferdinand, at least by reputation, as the prestigious project of the city’s virtual ruler and one of Charles v’s allies [Fig. 5.18].15 The choice to import a style that was new and exciting, but as yet foreign to the general culture of his dominions, was a conscious choice. It is difficult to say whether Ferdinand and Anna’s personal taste and interests alone deter- mined this choice, or whether reasons of policy and representation also played some role. Renate Holzschuh-Hofer has demonstrated the importance of im- perial and dynastic concerns in the application of the new style and the use of symbolic elements in the figurative decoration of Ferdinand’s residences. Apart from the design of the main entrance of the Hofburg, the Schweizertor [below, Figs 5.81–05.82], the most evident of these is the application of identi- cal decorative panels, all including the fire steel-and-flint motif of the Order of the Golden Fleece, in the window surrounds of the Prague Summer Palace, Figure 5.14 Plaque commemorating the earliest adaptations of the Hofburg under Ferdinand i, 1535. Figures 5.15–5.16 The German edition of Sebastiano Serlio’s Fourth Book: Die gemaynen Reglen von der Architectur, Antwerp 1542: titlepage and dedication to King Ferdinand i.