Editing Renaissance architecture (section)

===Bohemia===
{{main|Czech Renaissance architecture}}
[[File:Prague Praha 2014 Holmstad Belvedere flott.jpg|thumb|right|[[Queen Anne's Summer Palace|Royal Summer Palace]] in [[Prague]] is considered by Czechs the purest Renaissance architecture outside of Italy.<ref name=guide>{{cite book|title=Prague : City Guidebook|date=2000|publisher=Kartografie|location=Prague|isbn=80-7011-597-1|page=40|edition=1st}}</ref>]]
The Renaissance style first appeared in the [[Lands of the Bohemian Crown|Crown of Bohemia]] in the 1490s. Bohemia together with its incorporated lands, especially [[Margraviate of Moravia|Moravia]], thus ranked among the areas of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] with the earliest known examples of the Renaissance architecture.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hamlin|first1=Alfred D.|title=History of architecture|date=2010|publisher=Salzwasser-Verlag|location=Bremen|isbn=9783861952503|page=338|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g89phgpRZOEC&pg=PA338|access-date=19 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304073634/https://books.google.cz/books?id=g89phgpRZOEC&pg=PA338&dq=|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

The lands of the Bohemian Crown were never part of the ancient [[Roman Empire]], thus they missed their own ancient classical heritage and had to be dependent on the primarily Italian models. As well as in other Central European countries the Gothic style kept its position especially in the church architecture. The traditional [[Gothic architecture]] was considered timeless and therefore able to express the sacredness. The Renaissance architecture coexisted with the Gothic style in Bohemia and Moravia until the late 16th century (e. g. the residential part of a palace was built in the modern Renaissance style but its chapel was designed with Gothic elements). The façades of Czech Renaissance buildings were often decorated with [[sgraffito]] (figural or ornamental).

During the reign of [[Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor]] and Bohemian king, the city of Prague became one of the most important European centers of the late Renaissance art (so-called [[Northern Mannerism|Mannerism]]). Nevertheless, not many architecturally significant buildings have been preserved from that time.