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Stankiewicz, Aleksander: Łaźnia i ogród w rezydencji Zygmunta Gonzagi margrabiego Myszkowskiego w Pińczowie
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to guests, sprinkled them with hot or cold water and played melodies. These solutions
have been discussed in the present paper with relation to the late sixteenth- and early
seventeenth-century inventions in automatic and hydraulics. A comparison with the trea-
tises on the above-mentioned topics, by such authors as Heron of Alexandria, Agostino
Ramelli, Giovanni Battista Aleotti, Giambattista della Porta, Salomon de Causa, among
others, as well as descriptions of other, sometimes surviving garden installations, suggests
that the Pińczów baths were one of numerous establishments of this kind that provided
entertainment to its users. At the same time, as all buildings of this kind, the baths had an
own iconographic programme which referred to the myth of Actaeon and Artemis. An
ample set of inscriptions decorating the building carried a moralizing message and also
alluded to the advantages and disadvantages of having a wife.
The above analysis has shown that the Pińczów baths were among the most interesting
establishments of its kind in Central Europe, combining sculpture with automatic and
hydraulics, and that they were well ahead of other similar constructions known to have
existed in royal and aristocratic palaces in the Commonwealth of Both Nations in the first
half of the seventeenth century. #
Translated &y /oanna Wbfańska
186
ARTYKUŁY
Aleksander Stankiewicz
have been discussed in the present paper with relation to the late sixteenth- and early
seventeenth-century inventions in automatic and hydraulics. A comparison with the trea-
tises on the above-mentioned topics, by such authors as Heron of Alexandria, Agostino
Ramelli, Giovanni Battista Aleotti, Giambattista della Porta, Salomon de Causa, among
others, as well as descriptions of other, sometimes surviving garden installations, suggests
that the Pińczów baths were one of numerous establishments of this kind that provided
entertainment to its users. At the same time, as all buildings of this kind, the baths had an
own iconographic programme which referred to the myth of Actaeon and Artemis. An
ample set of inscriptions decorating the building carried a moralizing message and also
alluded to the advantages and disadvantages of having a wife.
The above analysis has shown that the Pińczów baths were among the most interesting
establishments of its kind in Central Europe, combining sculpture with automatic and
hydraulics, and that they were well ahead of other similar constructions known to have
existed in royal and aristocratic palaces in the Commonwealth of Both Nations in the first
half of the seventeenth century. #
Translated &y /oanna Wbfańska
186
ARTYKUŁY
Aleksander Stankiewicz