Palace on the Isle

Coordinates: 52°12′53″N 21°2′8″E / 52.21472°N 21.03556°E / 52.21472; 21.03556
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Palace on the Isle
Pałac Na Wyspie
North façade
Map
General information
Architectural styleNeoclassical
Town or cityWarsaw
CountryPoland
Construction startedbefore 1683[1]
Completed1689
ClientStanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski,
Stanislaus II Augustus
Design and construction
Architect(s)Tylman Gamerski,
Domenico Merlini (1775–1795)
Historic Monument of Poland
Designated1994-09-08
Part ofWarsaw – historic city center with the Royal Route and Wilanów
Reference no.M.P. 1994 nr 50 poz. 423[2]

The Palace on the Isle (

Royal Baths Park
, the city's largest park, occupying over 76 hectares of the city center.

From 1674 this palace and the nearby

stuccos
, statues, and paintings; some of the original decorations and architectural details survive.

In 1766 King

English garden
.

During the final stages of World War II, the retreating Germans devastated the interior of the Palace and drilled holes in the structure in preparation for destruction with explosives. However, the plan was never carried out.

In 2019 the palace was 11th on the list of most visited palaces and monuments in the world, attracting over 4.9 million visitors.[3]

History

Lubomirski's bathing pavilion
Principal (south) façade

The building began as a bath-house for

pavilions: Arcadia, Hermitage, Frascati, and the largest, the Bath-house.[1] The marble building was constructed before 1683 to a design by Tylman Gamerski
.

Finished in 1689, it was intended to serve as a bath-house, habitable pavilion, and a garden

water deities (e.g., a Nereus) surrounding the pavilion's main decorative feature, the fountain
.

Other chambers had richly decorated

Lubomirski coat of arms
, Szreniawa.

King Stanisław August Poniatowski decided to convert the property into private quarters, and between 1764 and 1795 it was remodeled by Domenico Merlini.

During World War II, the Germans drilled holes into the walls for explosives but never got around to blowing up the palace.[4] The palace served as German barracks.

Architecture

Paintings gallery

The palace is built on an artificial island that divides the lake into two parts, a smaller northern lake and a larger southern one. The palace is connected to the surrounding park by two

Corinthian columns
.

Interiors

Solomon Room (1892),
by Ludomir Dymitrowicz (1844-1923)

On the palace's ground floor is the Bacchus Room, decorated with 17th-century Dutch blue tiles and a painting by Jacob Jordaens depicting Silenus and Bacchantes.[5] The 1778 ceiling painting, Bacchus, Ceres, Venus and Cupid by Jan Bogumił Plersch, was burned by German forces in 1944.[6] The Rotunda, designed by Domenico Merlini, occupies the central portion of the palace. Decorated in yellow and white marble, with figures of the Polish kings, it is one of the most important examples of neoclassical decoration within the palace. It leads to the Bath Room and the Ballroom.

On the other side of the Rotunda is the lower Picture Gallery, which contains works by

Classicist style
.

Bathing Room (1875), by Aleksander Gryglewski

The Solomon Room, one of the largest of the palace's ground-floor interiors, was embellished with a series of paintings depicting the History of Solomon.

preparations to blow up the building.[8]
On the first floor are the royal apartments, the upper picture gallery, the balcony room, the king's cabinet, the royal bed chambers, the cloakroom, and the officer's room.

In the years 2012–2015, the palace underwent further renovations, which covered the roof as well as all the rooms of the palace including the Ball Room in which 17th-century wall paintings by Jan Bogumił Plersch were unveiled. In 2016, the palace and park received an estimated 2.1 million visitors.[9]

Gallery

  • Palace on the Isle
  • The northern façade of the palace
    The northern façade of the palace
  • A bridge leading to the palace
    A bridge leading to the palace
  • A statue depicting the Allegory of the Bug River
    A statue depicting the Allegory of the
    Bug River
  • A lake surrounding the palace
    A lake surrounding the palace
  • The palace and park
    The palace and park
  • Palace on the Isle at night
    Palace on the Isle at night

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d "Lubomirski's Bathhouse". Varsovia.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2008-05-20. Retrieved 2008-02-09.
  2. ^ Zarządzenie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 8 września 1994 r. w sprawie uznania za pomnik historii., M.P. z 1994 r. Nr 50, poz. 423
  3. ^ "Kultura w 2019 roku". stat.gov.pl (in Polish). 30 September 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  4. ^ "Historia". Muzeum Łazienki Królewskie (in Polish). Retrieved 2008-02-09.
  5. ^ Identified as a painter's own work by Roger Adolf d'Hulst (d'Hulst 1974, Vol. 1, pp. 240-241).
  6. ^ "Pokój Bachusa". Muzeum Łazienki Królewskie (in Polish). Retrieved 2008-02-09.
  7. ^ "Royal Baths Museum" (in Polish). culture.pl. Retrieved 2008-02-09.
  8. ^ a b c "Sala Salomona - Palac na Wyspie". Muzeum Łazienki Królewskie (Royal Baths Museum) (in Polish). Retrieved 2010-02-19.
  9. ^ "EGMUS 2016". Retrieved 23 November 2019.

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