DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.29195#0010
Table of Contents
Introduction 9
1. The Palace's history 12
Denhoff and Czartoryski times 13
A description and inventory of the Palace in 1735 19
A Residence fit for the Princes Czartoryski 23
The corps de garde 33
Rococo finesse 41
Casanova and the wine fountain 43
Izabela Lubomirska nee Czartoryska and her times 45
Distinguished artists, splendid palatial interiors, and Pompeian motifs 52
The happy couple, Stanistaw Kostka Potocki and his wife Aleksandra 56
Stanistaw Kostka and Aleksandra depicted in words and pictures 60
The Polish Herculaneum, Warsaw's Revival, and A Specification of Rooms 63
Stanistaw Kostka's study and library 66
The times of Stanistaw and Aleksandra's son and grandchildren 67
The Palace and the house at Number 17 in the times
of Stanistaw Potocki (1845-1886) 76
The Palace in the hands of the Potocki of Gaticia 78
The Potocki Palace in a diplomat's recollections 96
The Czartoryski-Potocki Patace on film 97
2. Tableaux vivants: facts and anecdotes from
the lives of the Princes, Counts, and their guests 100
A duel that never was, a six-horse carriage, and a magic lantern 101
Napoleon, "magnetising enslavement,” and a Bacciarelli painting 106
Napoleon in the Potocki Palace: the most famous social event of 1807 110
The concert, the dancing, and the beautiful Maria Walewska 113
The Battle of Raszyn and the ball for the Archduke Ferdinand 119
Introduction 9
1. The Palace's history 12
Denhoff and Czartoryski times 13
A description and inventory of the Palace in 1735 19
A Residence fit for the Princes Czartoryski 23
The corps de garde 33
Rococo finesse 41
Casanova and the wine fountain 43
Izabela Lubomirska nee Czartoryska and her times 45
Distinguished artists, splendid palatial interiors, and Pompeian motifs 52
The happy couple, Stanistaw Kostka Potocki and his wife Aleksandra 56
Stanistaw Kostka and Aleksandra depicted in words and pictures 60
The Polish Herculaneum, Warsaw's Revival, and A Specification of Rooms 63
Stanistaw Kostka's study and library 66
The times of Stanistaw and Aleksandra's son and grandchildren 67
The Palace and the house at Number 17 in the times
of Stanistaw Potocki (1845-1886) 76
The Palace in the hands of the Potocki of Gaticia 78
The Potocki Palace in a diplomat's recollections 96
The Czartoryski-Potocki Patace on film 97
2. Tableaux vivants: facts and anecdotes from
the lives of the Princes, Counts, and their guests 100
A duel that never was, a six-horse carriage, and a magic lantern 101
Napoleon, "magnetising enslavement,” and a Bacciarelli painting 106
Napoleon in the Potocki Palace: the most famous social event of 1807 110
The concert, the dancing, and the beautiful Maria Walewska 113
The Battle of Raszyn and the ball for the Archduke Ferdinand 119