Antonio della Porta

< p > Antonio della Porta (1631 / 1632 Manno u Lugano - 3 August 1702 Bayreuth [source?] in Bavaria) was an Italian builder and architect. According to his plans, a number of castles were built, for example in Neustadt an der Waldnaab, in Roudnice nad Labem, Libochovice, Red Castle at Jirkova, etc. < / p > < p > Since 1662 he worked as a builder for Count Jan Ferdinand of Verdenberg at the Austrian estate Grafenegg near Wagram. His first well-known contract in Bohemia was a castle in Milesov for Zdeněk Kaspar Kaplíra from Sulevic, and since 1668 he was in the service of Prince Václav Eusebia from Lobkovic. In addition to the Roudnice castle he also rebuilt the castle in the Polish Zahny and Sedlčany, for Václav Ferdinand Popel of Lobkovic extended the castle in Bílina. At the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, the castle of the Red Castle near Jirkov for the Hrzans of Harasov. In 1697 he was summoned by Margrave Christian Ernst to Bayreuthu. Around 1700, Antonio della Porta, together with Jacques Bourdin de la Fund, created plans for the castle of Margrave Friedrich in Erlangen. [source?] < / p >