ARCHITEKTONICZNE TRANSFORMACJE VILLA REGIA W CZASACH WAZÓW
ARCHITECTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE VILLA REGIA DURING THE TIME OF THE VASAS

Summary/Abstract: The article summarizes the discussion on the dating and authorship of the design of the VillaRegia palace in the vicinity of Warsaw and centres attention on the figure of Ladislas IV as theperson who initiated the construction of the villa for Queen Cecilia Renata. In a later part of thestudy, the author reconstructs the stages of the palace’s construction in the years 1636–1643.He also refers to previous reconstructions of the seventeenth-century form of the Vasa palace,revising and verifying them, and reconstructs the form of the building in its earliest period. Inthe second part, he sheds light on the issue of the Roman origins of the architecture and itsPolish affinities (the floorplan – the structure – the tower projections – the loggia – the stairs –the attic), he gives a profile of Costante Tencalla – the author of the palace’s design. The articleculminates with a reconstruction of the course of the rebuilding of the residence followingthe Swedish Deluge (by Isidoro Affaitati) and the form of the building when it belonged to theSobieski family.

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