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 natural park, numerous gardens came into existence there, such as the Kanálka, the grounds of Wimmer and Buček, the Cibulka and Klamovka. Later on, under Pückler’s influence the grounds of Chotek, the Saracinka and the Kinský park were laid out.

As has already been indicated, the Empire period was not rich in artistically significant individualities. There is no need to enumerate the officials of the building departments or the authorised builders, although they were of importance in their immediate neighbourhood, and local history is already beginning to take note of them. The architects who distinguished themselves at least by the formal perfection of their work, were mostly pupils of the Academy at Vienna: the Director and Professor J. Fischer, who planned the and the Church of the Holy Cross on the Příkopy, Jindřich Koch, who carried out the Kinský villa at Prague, the Mausolea at Budenice, and the Castle at Častolovice, J. Hausknecht, who probably designed the Platýz, and a number of Prague houses, without reckoning here also Peter de Nobile, who was responsible for the rebuilding of the old Town Hall, and C. F. Schuricht of Dresden, the originator of the plan for the Castle of Kačina near N. Dvory (1802), who on the whole fall outside the limits of this group. Of the native artists, reference should be made at least to V. Kulhánek, who designed the Raphael Chapel in the Klara Institute for the Blind, F. Pavíček, architect to the Archbishop, and of the provincial architects, J. Schaffer at Jindřichův Hradec, J. Sandtner at Budějovice, and Fr. Filous at Pilsen. Of the teachers at the Technical Academy of Architecture, excellent work was done in training architects by Jos. Havle and C. Wiesenfeld, in addition to J. Fischer, who is mentioned above.

Nor did the early Romantic period, which shaped the leading outlines of the Empire style, and which accelerated the development of Czech painting by several suggestive influences, on the