Santini's wife died in 1720 and he married south bohemian noblewoman Antonie Ignatie Chřapická from Mohliškovice and Santini was ennobled.
The fact that he became renowned person, proves, that he was in 1723 by Jan Josef from Schwalbenfeld called "highly noble rich in art JanSantiniAichel townsman and architect of Royal Lesser Town of Prague".
Santini was so significant figure of baroque architecture that he had a lot of continuators and followers.
Often considered one of the most important architects of the eighteenth century in Bohemia, Jan Balzej Santini-Aichel was born in Prague in 1677.
SantiniAichel drew from aesthetic, religious and intellectual currents that were found in local Gothic tradition and from an historical and religious revival that sought to imbue the past with new meaning.
SantiniAichel acted as a forerunner of the Gothic Revival of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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