Jean Baptiste Mathey

Jean Baptiste Mathey (c. 1630 – c. 1695) was a French architect and painter born in Dijon.

[1] He enjoyed a remarkable career in which his French planning and devotion to classical rationality (as opposed to the luxuriance of Italian Baroque) were a conscious artistic challenge to established taste.

Mathey was commissioned by the Archbishop of Prague, Johann Friedrich, to construct the Chateau Troja, which he worked on from 1676 to 1694.

[2] His plans were also probably used for the construction of the Church of Saint Roch in the Prague then-suburb of Žižkov.

[citation needed] Count of Waldstein, later the Archbishop of Prague, was apprised with Mathey and brought him to Duchcov for the purpose of rebuilding the Castle of Dux.