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Miodowa
Miodowa (lit. ''Honey Street'') is a street in Warsaw's Old Town. More precisely, it links the Krakowskie (Cracow Suburb) Street in with Krasiński Square. It is also the name of a street in the Kazimierz district in Kraków. History In the 16th century Miodowa Street was renowned for its gingerbread shops; hence its name. During the 18th century the Italian painter Bernardo Bellotto, better known as il Canaletto, the court painter for Poland's last king Stanisław August Poniatowski, painted with meticulous details the streets and architecture of 18th century Warsaw. Canaletto painted a view of the street with all the hustle and bustle of its traffic. The buildings are, on the right, the palace of Crown Marshal Jan Klemens Branicki (built in 1740) and, on the left, the palace of the Bishops of Kraków (built in 1622, rebuilt between 1760 and 1762 by Jakub Fontana) and the mansion of the Warsaw banker, Piotr Tepper (built in 1774 according to design by Efraim Szreger, d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miodowa Street (painting)
''Miodowa Street'' (Polish - ''Ulica Miodowa'') is a 1777 oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian artist Bernardo Bellotto, then court painter to Stanisław August Poniatowski, king of Poland. Now in the Royal Castle, Warsaw, it is one of a series of twenty-two images of Warsaw by this artist and shows the junction of Miodowa Street (Warsaw), Miodowa Street with Senatorska Street (''Ulica Senatorska''). On the left is the Krakow Episcopal Palace (Warsaw), Krakow Episcopal Palace and the now-lost 1774 Tepper Palace designed by Ephraim Schröger. On the right is the Branicki Palace, Warsaw, Branicki Palace and Krasiński Palace The series was housed in the Royal Castle, Warsaw until 1822 before being taken to Russia then returned to Poland in 1922. The painting of Miodowa Street was used as evidence for the reconstruction of the Branicki Palace and the Episcopal Palace after World War Two. Bibliography * ''Malarstwo Polskie'', AURIGA, Warszawa, 1984 1777 paintings Paintings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Branicki Palace, Warsaw
The Branicki Palace ( ) is an 18th-century magnate's mansion in Warsaw, Poland. Situated at the junction of ''Podwale'' and '' Miodowa'' Streets, it was constructed for the aristocratic Branicki-Gryf family in the Rococo style. The palace is known for its elaborate sculptures and statues above the cornice. History The Palace is one of three with the same name in Warsaw. This particular Branicki Palace is on Miodowa Street (the others are located on Nowy Świat Street and ''Na Skarpie'' Avenue). The original building that stood where the palace now stands was a 17th-century mansion of the Sapieha family sold in the beginning of the 18th century to Stefan Mikołaj Branicki. This led to the current palace, built in 1740 by Johann Sigmund Deybel for Grand Crown Hetman Jan Klemens Branicki. Jan Henryk Klemm (1743), Jakub Fontana (1750) and sculptor Jan Chryzostom Redler also participated in the construction. The now rococo palace was inspired by French palaces. The layout was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lelewel Palace
Lelewel Palace () was a rococo palace on the Miodowa Street in the Warsaw Old Town, which was also unofficially named "Palace Street" (''ulica Pałacowa''). Lelewel Palace was built in 1755 by Efraim Szreger on an estate documented to have been property of King John III Sobieski and maintaining the original Corps de logis. The client and owner until 1787 was Constance Lelewel née Jauch. History The original timber manor house of Krzysztof Gembicki, Grand Pantler of the Crown, that occupied the allotment was burned by Swedish and Brandenburgian forces during the Deluge. In 1662 it was replaced by another timber mansion of Stanisław Razicki, the king's secretary. The more permanent brick palace was erected between 1739 and 1740 for Aleksander Szembek, voivode of Sieradz. It was constructed as a French-style city palace with two outbuildings and a geometric garden. Around 1755 the palace was enlarged for the subsequent proprietor Swedish-Prussian aristocrat Heinrich Lölhö ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kraków Bishops Palace, Warsaw
The Kraków Bishops Palace () was the residence of the bishops of Cracow in Warsaw. It is located at 5 Miodowa Street. History It was built for bishop Jakub Zadzik in 1622 and rebuilt in 1668 by bishop Andrzej Trzebicki after its destruction in the Swedish Wars. It was in poor repair by the mid-18th century and was extensively rebuilt in the late Baroque style by bishop Kajetan Sołtyk between 1760 and 1762, giving it the two storey appearance shown in the 1777 painting '' Miodowa Street''. It housed offices from the end of the 18th century and after the third partition of Poland in 1795 it housed the president of South Prussia. It was rebuilt after 1828 and partly dismantled in 1910. It burned down during the 1939 Siege of Warsaw and demolished during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. It was rebuilt to designs by Ludwik Borawski and Wenceslas Podlewski between 1948 and 1950 as the headquarters of PZL PZL, may refer to: Places * PZL, an IATA airport code for Phinda Airfield in K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pałac Teppera (Warsaw)
Tepper's Palace was a palace on Miodowa Street in the Polish capital of Warsaw. It was designed by Ephraim Schröger in 1774 for the banker Piotr Tepper, replacing the former Firlejów manor on the site. Soon afterwards it was shown in the Bernardo Bellotto painting '' Miodowa Street''. After Poland was dissolved in 1793, it passed to Tepper's adoptive nephew Piotr Fergusson Tepper before passing through several other hands. In 1807 it hosted a ball organised by Charles Talleyrand in honour of Napoleon I. Between 1815 and 1818 its first and second floors housed the Government Commission of the Revenue and Treasury. Narcyza Żmichowska lived in the building between 1856 and 1862. It burned down during the siege of Warsaw in September 1939 and in 1948 its ruins were demolished to build the Warsaw W-Z Route Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, Rive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernardo Bellotto
Bernardo Bellotto (c. 1721/2 or 30 January 172117 November 1780), was an Italians, Italian urban Landscape art, landscape Painting, painter or ''vedutista'', and printmaker in etching famous for his Veduta, ''vedute'' of European cities – Dresden, Vienna, Turin, and Warsaw. He was the student and nephew of the renowned Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto, and sometimes used the latter's illustrious name, signing himself as Bernardo Canaletto. In Germany and Poland, Bellotto called himself by his uncle's name, Canaletto. This caused some confusion, however Bellotto’s work is more sombre in color than Canaletto's and his depiction of clouds and shadows brings him closer to Dutch painting. Bellotto's style was characterized by elaborate representation of architectural and natural vistas, and by the specific quality of each place's lighting. It is plausible that Bellotto, and other Venetian masters of ''vedute'', may have used the camera obscura in order to achieve super ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazimierz
Kazimierz (; ; ) is a historical district of Kraków and Kraków Old Town, Poland. From its inception in the 14th century to the early 19th century, Kazimierz was an independent city, a royal city of the Crown of the Polish Kingdom, located south of the Old Town of Kraków, separated from it by a branch of the Vistula river. For many centuries, Kazimierz was a place where ethnic Polish and Jewish cultures coexisted and intermingled. The northeastern part of the district was historically Jewish. In 1941, the Jews of Kraków were forcibly relocated by the German occupying forces into the Krakow ghetto just across the river in Podgórze, and most did not survive the war. Today, Kazimierz is one of the major tourist attractions of Krakow and an important center of cultural life of the city. The boundaries of Kazimierz are defined by an old island in the Vistula river. The northern branch of the river ( – Old Vistula) was filled-in at the end of the 19th century and made into an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krasiński Square
Krasiński Square () is a square in the central district of Warsaw, Poland. The square itself is adjacent to Warsaw Old Town and features buildings of great historical and national significance. History The square was formed at the end of the 18th century from the former courtyard of the Krasiński Palace.Plac Krasińskich at the official website of Śródmieście district During the era, it served as a market place for . As a result, two iron wells were built in 1823. In 1838, the Badeni Palace was constructed on the square. From the end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tylman Van Gameren
Tylman van Gameren, also ''Tilman'' or ''Tielman'' and Tylman Gamerski, (Utrecht, 3 July 1632 – c. 1706, Warsaw) was a Dutch-born Polish architect and engineer who, at the age of 28, settled in Poland and worked for Queen Marie Casimire, wife of Poland's King John III Sobieski. Tylman left behind a lifelong legacy of buildings that are regarded as gems of Polish Baroque architecture. Life and professional career Tylman was born in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and was trained by Jacob van Campen whilst the latter was busy building the Stadhuis on the Dam. Like many Dutch artists at the height of the Dutch Golden Age, Tylman left for Italy in 1650. While in Venice, he earned the reputation as a highly skilled painter of battle scenes. In 1660, Tylman met in Leiden the Polish prince Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski, the Grand Crown Marshall of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and accepted his invitation to come to Poland as his architect and military engineer. Once in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John III Sobieski
John III Sobieski ( (); (); () 17 August 1629 – 17 June 1696) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1674 until his death in 1696. Born into Polish nobility, Sobieski was educated at the Jagiellonian University and toured Europe in his youth. As a soldier and later commander, he fought in the Khmelnytsky Uprising, the Russo-Polish War (1654–1667), Russo-Polish War and during the Swedish invasion known as the Deluge (history), Deluge. Sobieski demonstrated his military prowess during the war against the Ottoman Empire and established himself as a leading figure in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Poland and Lithuania. In 1674, he was elected monarch of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth following the sudden and unexpected death of Michael Korybut Wiśniowiecki, King Michael. Sobieski's 22-year reign marked a period of the Commonwealth's stabilization, much needed after the turmoil of previous conflicts. Popular among his subjects, he was an able military l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Śródmieście Północne
Śródmieście (Polish, 'city centre' or 'downtown) may refer to the following places in Poland: * Śródmieście, Warsaw Śródmieście (), also anglicised as Downtown, is the central Districts and neighbourhoods of Warsaw, district of Warsaw, the capital city of Poland. It encompasses the Old Town, Warsaw, Old Town, the city's historic core, and is the centre of c ... * Śródmieście, Gdańsk * Śródmieście, Gdynia * Śródmieście, Katowice * Śródmieście, Rybnik * Śródmieście, Szczecin ** Śródmieście (former district of Szczecin) * Śródmieście, Wrocław See also * {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Town, Warsaw
Warsaw Old Town, also known as Old Town, and historically known as Old Warsaw,''Encyklopedia Warszawy''. Warsaw: Polish Scientific Publishers PWN, 1994, p. 806. ISBN 83-01-08836-2. is a neighbourhood, and an area of the City Information System, in the city of Warsaw, Poland, located within the district of Śródmieście. It is the oldest portion of the city, and contains numerous historic buildings, mostly from 17th and 18th centuries, such as the Royal Castle, city walls, St. John's Cathedral, and the Barbican, the Old Town Market Square and the Warsaw Mermaid Statue. The settlement itself dates back to between the 13th and 14th centuries, and was granted town privileges . During World War II, the Old Town was nearly totally destroyed, and subsequently reconstructed. The project was the world's first attempt to resurrect an entire historic city core and was included on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1980. The reconstruction efforts were again recognized in 2011 when all i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
