Kazanowski Palace
Kazanowski Palace | |
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General information | |
Architectural style | Baroque |
Town or city | Warsaw |
Country | Poland |
Construction started | 1628 |
Completed | 1643 |
Demolished | 1656 |
Client | Adam Kazanowski |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Constantino Tencalla |
The Kazanowski Palace (Polish: pałac Kazanowskich), also known as the Radziejowski Palace, was a large palace in Warsaw, occupying the place where the Charitable Center Res Sacra Miser stands today.
History
When prince Władysław Vasa (future King
In 1632, prince Władysław gave the palace to his favourite, Adam Kazanowski; this caused a serious misunderstanding with the King, and a special Sejm committee was appointed to determine the circumstances behind this gesture.[1] In 1637, Kazanowski enlarged the building, holding to Tencalla's original designs. The new structure was a large four-storied palace with a garden, enormous terrace and central courtyard—alcove tops were decorated with gilded crowns.[1]
The rich furnishings of the palace were described in 1646 by
Le Laboureur later wrote:
Italy, which we visited after leaving Poland has nothing as magnificent and lordly. I admit that I was astonished, and it seemed that I had been transferred to an enchanted palace.[3]
His patron Madame de Guébriand noted "the rooms [were] decorated with various cupboards of the most exquisite workmanship, and tables with the most beautiful objects in gold, silver and amber". Marshal Kazanowski, pleased with Madame de Guébriand delight at seeing the objects asked which items she would like to take back with her to France, and despite Madame's protests, he and his wife sent her several amber caskets.[4]
Kazanowski also arranged a cabinet of curiosities (Wunderkammer) in his palace that contained a large stuffed snake from Africa hanging from the ceiling, and an Indian sea turtle.[5] The palace also had a terrace garden on the escarp side, and was notably famous not only because of its decadent furnishings, but also due to central heating and plumbing installed inside.[6]
After Kazanowski's death the palace was passed on to his wife Elżbieta Słuszczanka, who some time later married Hieronim Radziejowski. At the time, she was the wealthiest woman in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. After Radziejowski was found guilty of treason against the King, she filed for divorce, which caused a small private war in Warsaw between Radziejowski and the Słuszka family who took the Kazanowski palace by force. Subsequently, Radziejowski was convicted and sentenced to the death penalty and had to escape the borders of the Commonwealth.[1]
The opulent Kazanowski Palace was ransacked and burned down during the Deluge by the Swedes in 1656 and never rebuilt.
References
- ^ ISBN 83-06010-21-3.)
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- ISBN 83-86301-25-2.
- ISBN 9788322319857.
- ISBN 978-83-87730-81-9.
- ^ Sir Bernard Pares, Robert William Seton-Watson, Harold Williams, Modern Humanities Research Association, Norman Brooke Jopson, University of London. School of Slavonic and East European Studies, Committee of American Scholars (1939). "Volume 17". The Slavonic and East European review. Published for a committee of American scholars by the George Banta Pub. Co. p. 419.
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External links
- (in Polish) Charitable Center “Res Sacra Miser” at www.warszawa1939.pl
- (in Polish) Kazanowski Palace at www.warszawa1939.pl