Jakub Maggi
| (died 1706) | Builder |
Born in the north of
Italy, he became he became a builder at the court of the
Schwarzenbergs in 1665. He conducted a baroque reconstruction of
the Hluboká castle (1677 - 1698), designed a renovation of a
vaulting of the Saint Mikuláš church in České Budějovice (1686 -
1688) and worked on many other constructions. From 1685 to 1687 he
baroquified the Český Krumlov castle for the Eggenbergs.
In the 1680\'s he repaired the Kratochvíle castle that burned out
and rebuilt the church of the Holy Body in the Český Krumlov
Minorite
monastery. From 1668 to 1692 he owned a house in Hluboká nad
Vltavou, in 1685 he also owned a house in Malá Strana in Prague. He
was buried in a former Dominican monastery in České Budějovice
where his tombstone has been preserved.
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