The Schwarzenberg Palace is an inherent part of the Prague Castle panorama. It is a significant Early Renaissance building whose facade is elaborately decorated with sgraffito. After a complete renovation, it now serves as an exhibition space for the National Gallery. Here you'll have a unique opportunity to view an incomparable collection of Bohemian Renaissance, Mannerist and Baroque art.After 1500, there were three larger houses in this place, two of them to be acquired by Jan Junior of Lobkowicz, future supreme Prague burgrave, after the great fire in 1541. He had the palace built from 1545 on by Agostino Galli, called Italian. The construction was completed, including the sgraffitoes, in 1567. The third house was acquired by Lobkowicz later on, and therefore also the construction of the Western side wing was completed later. The groundplan of the palace resembles the letter T, and there is a little lower side building on the right side, which delimits the yard of honour at the Hradčanské Square. It is divided from the square by a wall with a grilled gate. The facades of the buildings and the walls are richly decorated with sgraffitoes of a North-Italian and Venetian type, dating back to 1567. The building is characteristic for its high gables, also covered by sgraffitoes, and by a marked lunette cornice between the roof and the wall.