Zámek, Renaissance Revival château in Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic
The château is a Renaissance Revival building in Nové Město na Moravě, featuring symmetrical architecture with rectangular windows and a central entrance framed by stone ornamentation. The interior now houses an art gallery with exhibition spaces for regional works.
Vilém Dubský z Třebomyslic built the château in 1589 on the site of an earlier fortress; its ground plan and ground-floor vaults survive from that construction. Swedish troops plundered it in 1643, a fire damaged it in 1723, and in 1745 Miniati di Campoli had it rebuilt in Baroque style as a four-winged château with a chapel. A neo-Renaissance remodelling in 1874 changed the façades and interiors and covered the roof with slate.
The gallery inside displays works by regional artists, with a focus on glass art, landscape paintings, and sculptures from the 20th century. Visitors can see how these art forms reflect the area's creative traditions.
The château stands on Vratislavovo náměstí, where the entrance to the Horácká galerie is located. The ground-floor vaults and the former chapel survive from earlier building phases, so allow time to move between the exhibition rooms and these historic spaces.
The ground floor still keeps the vaults and rectangular plan with a central tower of Vilém Dubský's 1589 castle, though the four-winged form dates from the 1745 Baroque rebuilding. The gallery's collection includes a set of 1960s–70s cast glass from the Škrdlovice glassworks near Žďár nad Sázavou.
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