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The Palace’s history
well-preserved church, with the delicate ornamentation on the architecture, pews,
and picture frames, gives a fair idea of how attractive the Rococo can be.
Sophistication, finesse, sublimation - these terms and expressions have appeared re-
currently in our remarks. Some of the Palace’s 18tl'-cemury owners, as well as some of
the designers of its interiors, must certainly have been familiar with Edmund Burke’s
Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin ofOur Ideas ofthe Sublime and Beautiful (1757).
The English term “the sublime” would soon be embarking on an even grander ca-
reer in European art and literature (Sublime 2000). In Poland Kazimierz Brodzinski,
a professor of the University of Warsaw and a close friend of Stanislaw Kostka Po-
tocki, wrote about it (Brodziriski 1966, pp. 449—465).
Nikolaus Pevsner refers to Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798: Fig. 29). The famous
ladies’ man, who was also a good writer, visited Warsaw in 1765—1766 and called on
August Aleksander Czartoryski in his Palace, which had just acquired the appearance
we have described above. In his memoirs Casanova recorded the visit as follows: On
Casanova
and the wine
fountain
Fig. 29. Anton Raphael Mengs (?), Portrait of
Giacomo Casanova, oils on canvas, 1768;
private collection. The frame is an excellent
example of the Rococo style with an elegant
rocaille ornament.
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well-preserved church, with the delicate ornamentation on the architecture, pews,
and picture frames, gives a fair idea of how attractive the Rococo can be.
Sophistication, finesse, sublimation - these terms and expressions have appeared re-
currently in our remarks. Some of the Palace’s 18tl'-cemury owners, as well as some of
the designers of its interiors, must certainly have been familiar with Edmund Burke’s
Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin ofOur Ideas ofthe Sublime and Beautiful (1757).
The English term “the sublime” would soon be embarking on an even grander ca-
reer in European art and literature (Sublime 2000). In Poland Kazimierz Brodzinski,
a professor of the University of Warsaw and a close friend of Stanislaw Kostka Po-
tocki, wrote about it (Brodziriski 1966, pp. 449—465).
Nikolaus Pevsner refers to Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798: Fig. 29). The famous
ladies’ man, who was also a good writer, visited Warsaw in 1765—1766 and called on
August Aleksander Czartoryski in his Palace, which had just acquired the appearance
we have described above. In his memoirs Casanova recorded the visit as follows: On
Casanova
and the wine
fountain
Fig. 29. Anton Raphael Mengs (?), Portrait of
Giacomo Casanova, oils on canvas, 1768;
private collection. The frame is an excellent
example of the Rococo style with an elegant
rocaille ornament.
43