Siedemnastowieczna Villa Regia (Pałac Kazimierzowski) w Warszawie w świetle najnowszych badań interdyscyplinarnych
The Seventeenth-Century Villa Regia (Casimir Palace) in Warsaw in the Light of Recent Inter­ disciplinary Research

Summary/Abstract: The Villa Regia (Casimir Palace) was, until now, one of theleast researched elements of the Vasa residential complex in Warsaw. Examinations of theVistula riverbed carried out during the last decade, which resulted in the discovery of morethan 20 tonnes of stone architectural details and sculptural elements, as well as architecturaland archaeological research on the preserved sections of the building, allowed for a signifi-cant correction of previous findings regarding its original form. Awareness of the building’soriginal shape, in turn, made it possible to place it in the broader context of the residentialarchitecture of the Commonwealth and Europe in the first half of the 17th century. It has alsobecome possible to make a preliminary attribution of the design and to search for sources ofinspiration for particular functional solutions and decorative motifs existing in the royal villa.

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