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Arkadia, draft design of the Tomb of Illusions, H. Ittar, c. 1800
in the Botanical Garden. Then Aigner took over in his two church buildings this idea which
was so topical in the Age of Enlightenment (the large number of smaller churches which also
drew on this conception will not be enumerated here). He built the first church, in the shape
of a rotunda, covered with a flattened dome and with a Corinthian six-column portico, at
Puławy in 1800. This church functioned as the sepulchral chapel of the Czartoryski family.
And the last work of Aigner’s in Warsaw, before he left Poland, was St. Alexander’s Church,
built in 1818-1820 - a rotunda with two equivalent elevations, the front one and that on the
side of the chancel. The interior was madę into a miniaturę of the Roman Pantheon. It is
evident that after a lapse of 30 years, Aigner referred to Kubicki’s designs of the church at
Ujazdów and the Tempie of Divine Providence. Only the political meaning of the founders’
intentions was different. The Tempie of Divine Providence was to commemorate patriotic
reforms passed in order to preserve independence, whereas the church of 1818-1825 was built
in memory of the entry of Tsar Alexander I, after the Kingdom of Poland had been
established.
A tufning point in planning and architecture came after the Kingdom of Poland was formed in
1815. Its government - it seems necessary to mention above all Duke Ksawery Drucki-
-Lubecki, who became in 1821 the President of the Government Commission on Revenue and
Treasury - proposed an economic programme which was carried out with firm consistency
and brought excellent results. The country, which had been only agricultural before, became
agricultural and industrial, with great conseąuences also in planning and architecture. A new
type of State patronage began to form and the activity of the central government could be seen
most clearly in the expansion of Warsaw, but also affected provincial centres. The
modernization of the State administration, the ordering of the economy and treasury, the
development of cultural life, all exerted great influence on architecture, for which it was
necessary to seek new forms. Certainly, there were still connections with the Age of
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in the Botanical Garden. Then Aigner took over in his two church buildings this idea which
was so topical in the Age of Enlightenment (the large number of smaller churches which also
drew on this conception will not be enumerated here). He built the first church, in the shape
of a rotunda, covered with a flattened dome and with a Corinthian six-column portico, at
Puławy in 1800. This church functioned as the sepulchral chapel of the Czartoryski family.
And the last work of Aigner’s in Warsaw, before he left Poland, was St. Alexander’s Church,
built in 1818-1820 - a rotunda with two equivalent elevations, the front one and that on the
side of the chancel. The interior was madę into a miniaturę of the Roman Pantheon. It is
evident that after a lapse of 30 years, Aigner referred to Kubicki’s designs of the church at
Ujazdów and the Tempie of Divine Providence. Only the political meaning of the founders’
intentions was different. The Tempie of Divine Providence was to commemorate patriotic
reforms passed in order to preserve independence, whereas the church of 1818-1825 was built
in memory of the entry of Tsar Alexander I, after the Kingdom of Poland had been
established.
A tufning point in planning and architecture came after the Kingdom of Poland was formed in
1815. Its government - it seems necessary to mention above all Duke Ksawery Drucki-
-Lubecki, who became in 1821 the President of the Government Commission on Revenue and
Treasury - proposed an economic programme which was carried out with firm consistency
and brought excellent results. The country, which had been only agricultural before, became
agricultural and industrial, with great conseąuences also in planning and architecture. A new
type of State patronage began to form and the activity of the central government could be seen
most clearly in the expansion of Warsaw, but also affected provincial centres. The
modernization of the State administration, the ordering of the economy and treasury, the
development of cultural life, all exerted great influence on architecture, for which it was
necessary to seek new forms. Certainly, there were still connections with the Age of
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