Schwarzenberg Palace

The palace was built as a representative Renaissance residential seat by John IV Popel of Lobkowicz. It changed owners several times in the following decades until the Schwarzenberg family inherited it at the beginning of the 18th century. The National Gallery in Prague has used the building for exhibition purposes since 2008. The present collection includes a selection of the most outstanding masterpieces from the NGP’s Collection of Old Art. The Renaissance period is represented by the works of Albrecht Dürer or Lucas Cranach; Mannerism is represented by the paintings of Agnolo Bronzino or El Greco, and the Baroque by Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Rembrandt. Of the 17th- and 18th-century artists in Bohemia, let us mention at least Karel Škréta or Petr Brandl.