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Maria Brykowska
Warsaw
LATE BAROQUE SACRAL COMPLEXES
IN THE POLISH COMMONWEALTH
The peak activity os the orders in the Polish Commonwealth
was in the middle third of the 18th c. (1730-1760)’. Out os the
enormous number os monastic complexes which were then expanded
or newly founded, some were distinguished in their spatial con-
ception from traditional schemes. Research has been restricted
the fact that the archival sources are incomplete and not all of
the monuments are preserved. But nevertheless let me now
present the most representative and most outstanding sacral
designs.
1. It is particularly interesting to note multi-courtyards,
symmetrical designs with a church in the centre. This architec-
tural theme was carried out in many versions, above all by or-
ders os clerks regular, who catered sor the social need for
schools, hospitals and missions. The church separated • two basic
functions of the monastery: the college and monastery, or hospi-
tal and monastery^ This spatial conception was implemented by
Warsaw architects in Piarist building. It was a continuation of
the scheme applied by Tylman van Gameren, e.g., in the Piarist
complex in Rzeszdw (1704) and finished by Jözes Fontana II in
Szçzuczyn (1722)2. In the late Baroque version, it was distin-
guished by the concave-convex facade in the centre, as in Antoni
Solari's design of the Piarist monastery in Radom (1737), and by
palace-like wings, as in the Warsaw complex designed by Jakub
Fontana ( 1758-1/69P. Jakub Fontana also brought new motiss in
Piarist building, designing the Collegium Nobilium (1741) in the
convention of an imposing street palace (the first of this type
in Warsaw), and, in the largest Piarist complex in Lvov (1748-
1758), a reception courtyard in front of the church, contained
between the wings of the monastery (as in the Viennese Piarist
monastery designed by Lucas Hildebrandt between 1698-1721)A
Among the multi-space symmetrical systems, a signisicant
position was silled by the monastery of the Bonisratelli in
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Warsaw
LATE BAROQUE SACRAL COMPLEXES
IN THE POLISH COMMONWEALTH
The peak activity os the orders in the Polish Commonwealth
was in the middle third of the 18th c. (1730-1760)’. Out os the
enormous number os monastic complexes which were then expanded
or newly founded, some were distinguished in their spatial con-
ception from traditional schemes. Research has been restricted
the fact that the archival sources are incomplete and not all of
the monuments are preserved. But nevertheless let me now
present the most representative and most outstanding sacral
designs.
1. It is particularly interesting to note multi-courtyards,
symmetrical designs with a church in the centre. This architec-
tural theme was carried out in many versions, above all by or-
ders os clerks regular, who catered sor the social need for
schools, hospitals and missions. The church separated • two basic
functions of the monastery: the college and monastery, or hospi-
tal and monastery^ This spatial conception was implemented by
Warsaw architects in Piarist building. It was a continuation of
the scheme applied by Tylman van Gameren, e.g., in the Piarist
complex in Rzeszdw (1704) and finished by Jözes Fontana II in
Szçzuczyn (1722)2. In the late Baroque version, it was distin-
guished by the concave-convex facade in the centre, as in Antoni
Solari's design of the Piarist monastery in Radom (1737), and by
palace-like wings, as in the Warsaw complex designed by Jakub
Fontana ( 1758-1/69P. Jakub Fontana also brought new motiss in
Piarist building, designing the Collegium Nobilium (1741) in the
convention of an imposing street palace (the first of this type
in Warsaw), and, in the largest Piarist complex in Lvov (1748-
1758), a reception courtyard in front of the church, contained
between the wings of the monastery (as in the Viennese Piarist
monastery designed by Lucas Hildebrandt between 1698-1721)A
Among the multi-space symmetrical systems, a signisicant
position was silled by the monastery of the Bonisratelli in
31