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Entrance hall
Visitors enter the chateau up the main staircase decorated with allegoric statues of four elements (Earth, Water, Fire, and Air) by Stephen Borovec. The hall is crowned by an overhead fresco ( painted after 1738) of the frontal view from bellow of the chateau project from the first half of 18th century which was never completely realized.
Drawing room
The sightseeing tour round the extensive chateau exposition of original not only baroque mobile property completed with other items from the stock of the National Care of Historical Monuments institutions and museums starts in the drawing room. Four participants of the Thirty-Year-War are taken in portraits from 1650.
Countess Closet
In this small room there is the Lazansky family gallery, particularly portraits of the last four generations of the chateau owners and their descendants.
Music chamber
Fragments of original fresco decorations and timber consols have preserved in this room. These compartment components typical for Manetin chateau match the colours of the fresco decorations.
Venetian chamber
This room is called Venetian after the collection of rococo furniture from the second half of 18th century illustrated with Venetian scenes. Visitors can first see the portrait of Marie Gabriela and her children. The room was originally countess’ cabinet.
The sightseeing tour continues through a ladies’ pink closet into the hunting hallway which holds visitors’ interest mainly thanks to the view out into the French garden and English park.
Hunting room
In this room you can see firearms from 19th century as well as original baroque furniture with hunting motives.
Great company hall
It is equipped by black varnished furniture decorated with brass, pearl and white marble. Paintings on the walls – Dutch Marine Corps – were painted after 1650. Some of them were painted by a Rotterdam painter Jacob Adriaenz Bellevois.
The tour goes on through the corridor in the northern chateau wing. There you can see some exhibits of painting attempts by nobles of 19th century – a tiny collection of romantic aquarelles by Sidonie Hoyos, Prokop Alois Lazansky’s wife, and her daughter Terezie.
Men’s cabinet
In the men’s cabinet there is a collection of oil paintings of horses from 18th century. Horse breeding used to be one of the big fancies of aristocracy.
Dvorak’s gallery
Collection of 13 paintings from 1716 – 1717, portraying servants and officials of Manetin aristocracy by Vaclav Dvorak will hold your interest with its rareness and exceptionality. There are two groups of paintings – single portraits of standing persons, and group portraits.
Oriental chamber
This room originally served as a dining room. Nowadays it is equipped with Oriental furniture.
Visitors enter the main hall through a small connecting closet in which other paintings of Dvorak’s portrait cycle of servants and officials are exhibited.
The main hall
The main hall is considered one of the most beautiful rooms in Manetin chateau by lots of visitors, particularly for its fresco decorations by Julius Lux from Pilsen and by Philip Bornschlegl from Würzburk. The overhead rococo painting from 1730 that hasn’t been renovated yet, glorifies virtues (Love, Strength, Wisdom, Fortune) accompanied by season allegories (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter). On the walls there are portraits by Philip Kristian Bentum who portrayed some of the Lazansky family members – Vaclav Joseph Lazansky and sons, Marie Gabriela and daughters as well as some Lazansky and Czernin’s close relatives. Manetin can be proud of the largest collection of Bentum’s paintings in the Czech Republic. Today, the room is used as a wedding hall and concert hall.
Library
Chateau Library belongs to the large book stock under the administration of the National Museum’s Library. It is installed in eight original oak, glassed-in bookcases. The collection has over five thousand volumes and evidences deep interest of aristocracy during 18th – 20th centuries. Lux’s fresco on the vault represents Zeus sitting on a cloud and Pallas Athena- Minerva kneeling in front of him in architectural design. It was renovated in 1993.
Connecting corridor leading to the church oratory is decorated with portraits of Lazansky family relatives and friends. The family gallery lets us look in the way of life of aristocracy and contemporary fashion.
Oratory
This discrete aboveboard place in the church was given to Manetin aristocracy. Local nobility took part in church services there. You can have a look into the parish church, where there is Petr Brandl’s painting Christ’s Baptism on the main altar.
Visitors enter the chateau up the main staircase decorated with allegoric statues of four elements (Earth, Water, Fire, and Air) by Stephen Borovec. The hall is crowned by an overhead fresco ( painted after 1738) of the frontal view from bellow of the chateau project from the first half of 18th century which was never completely realized.
Drawing room
The sightseeing tour round the extensive chateau exposition of original not only baroque mobile property completed with other items from the stock of the National Care of Historical Monuments institutions and museums starts in the drawing room. Four participants of the Thirty-Year-War are taken in portraits from 1650.
Countess Closet
In this small room there is the Lazansky family gallery, particularly portraits of the last four generations of the chateau owners and their descendants.
Music chamber
Fragments of original fresco decorations and timber consols have preserved in this room. These compartment components typical for Manetin chateau match the colours of the fresco decorations.
Venetian chamber
This room is called Venetian after the collection of rococo furniture from the second half of 18th century illustrated with Venetian scenes. Visitors can first see the portrait of Marie Gabriela and her children. The room was originally countess’ cabinet.
The sightseeing tour continues through a ladies’ pink closet into the hunting hallway which holds visitors’ interest mainly thanks to the view out into the French garden and English park.
Hunting room
In this room you can see firearms from 19th century as well as original baroque furniture with hunting motives.
Great company hall
It is equipped by black varnished furniture decorated with brass, pearl and white marble. Paintings on the walls – Dutch Marine Corps – were painted after 1650. Some of them were painted by a Rotterdam painter Jacob Adriaenz Bellevois.
The tour goes on through the corridor in the northern chateau wing. There you can see some exhibits of painting attempts by nobles of 19th century – a tiny collection of romantic aquarelles by Sidonie Hoyos, Prokop Alois Lazansky’s wife, and her daughter Terezie.
Men’s cabinet
In the men’s cabinet there is a collection of oil paintings of horses from 18th century. Horse breeding used to be one of the big fancies of aristocracy.
Dvorak’s gallery
Collection of 13 paintings from 1716 – 1717, portraying servants and officials of Manetin aristocracy by Vaclav Dvorak will hold your interest with its rareness and exceptionality. There are two groups of paintings – single portraits of standing persons, and group portraits.
Oriental chamber
This room originally served as a dining room. Nowadays it is equipped with Oriental furniture.
Visitors enter the main hall through a small connecting closet in which other paintings of Dvorak’s portrait cycle of servants and officials are exhibited.
The main hall
The main hall is considered one of the most beautiful rooms in Manetin chateau by lots of visitors, particularly for its fresco decorations by Julius Lux from Pilsen and by Philip Bornschlegl from Würzburk. The overhead rococo painting from 1730 that hasn’t been renovated yet, glorifies virtues (Love, Strength, Wisdom, Fortune) accompanied by season allegories (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter). On the walls there are portraits by Philip Kristian Bentum who portrayed some of the Lazansky family members – Vaclav Joseph Lazansky and sons, Marie Gabriela and daughters as well as some Lazansky and Czernin’s close relatives. Manetin can be proud of the largest collection of Bentum’s paintings in the Czech Republic. Today, the room is used as a wedding hall and concert hall.
Library
Chateau Library belongs to the large book stock under the administration of the National Museum’s Library. It is installed in eight original oak, glassed-in bookcases. The collection has over five thousand volumes and evidences deep interest of aristocracy during 18th – 20th centuries. Lux’s fresco on the vault represents Zeus sitting on a cloud and Pallas Athena- Minerva kneeling in front of him in architectural design. It was renovated in 1993.
Connecting corridor leading to the church oratory is decorated with portraits of Lazansky family relatives and friends. The family gallery lets us look in the way of life of aristocracy and contemporary fashion.
Oratory
This discrete aboveboard place in the church was given to Manetin aristocracy. Local nobility took part in church services there. You can have a look into the parish church, where there is Petr Brandl’s painting Christ’s Baptism on the main altar.
