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but the colonnade and some other parts of the building preserved their classical form. This was re-
ally an eclectic structure, even more bizarre, as the Princess ordered the outer walls to be encrusted
with architectonic pieces from outstanding Polish and Lithuanian castles, churches and monaster-
ies, as well as some fragments of sculptured tombs of historical value. A peculiar lapidarium was
created. On the ground floor, the interior of the Gothic House consisted of an antechamber, a hall
called "the room under the coats-of-arms", and a staircase also filled with many objects. On the
first floor there was another antechamber, another hall, "the green room", and finally a smali study.
In fact, the museum space was very limited, but what seems unbelievable, is that it contained over
4,000 exhibits, mostly smali objects of all kinds from many periods and countries. Their task was
to represent famous people of the world: heroes from history, kings, ąueens, princes, military
commanders and brave travelers, scholars and writers, and especially romantic poets and couples
of lovers. Similarly to the Tempie of the Sibyl, there were old documents with seals, old letters and
prints, miniaturę coins and medals, various vessels and precious jewels. However, there were also
some purely sentimental items such as "twigs from the place where Troy was", "grass gathered
on the tomb of Fingal in Scotland" or "cypress twigs from the Alhambra and Generalife". Later
they became an object of ridicule for some critics who saw the collection of the Gothic House as
an absurd Wunderkammer. These people seem to neglect the fact that the House contained some
artifacts of human culture coming from the royal and imperial treasuries of Western Europę, from
the arsenals of Yienna and Brussels, and from the Treasury of The Order of the Golden Fleece.
Particularly distinguished parts of the collection were arms and armour of highest ąuality, and
a painting gallery with Leonardo da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine, Raphaels Portrait oj a Youth, and
Rembrandts Landscape with the Good Samaritan.
The Puławy Museums existed for thirty years, from 1801-1830. At the time of the Novem-
ber Uprising - the war with Russia (1830-1831) - the Museums were evacuated and the objects
hidden in various places in the country or even taken abroad. The Hotel Lambert, a palące in Paris,
became an emigration seat of the Czartoryski family. It was there that a grandson of Princess Iza-
bela, Ladislas Czartoryski, started a new wave of art collecting, in the grand style. In 1876, Princess
Czartoryski s Museum was finally installed in Cracow, where it has survived all the successive tem-
pests of history and nowbelongs to the Foundation of the Princes Czartoryski, where it continues
Princess Izabelas tradition, in serving the Nation and the World.
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but the colonnade and some other parts of the building preserved their classical form. This was re-
ally an eclectic structure, even more bizarre, as the Princess ordered the outer walls to be encrusted
with architectonic pieces from outstanding Polish and Lithuanian castles, churches and monaster-
ies, as well as some fragments of sculptured tombs of historical value. A peculiar lapidarium was
created. On the ground floor, the interior of the Gothic House consisted of an antechamber, a hall
called "the room under the coats-of-arms", and a staircase also filled with many objects. On the
first floor there was another antechamber, another hall, "the green room", and finally a smali study.
In fact, the museum space was very limited, but what seems unbelievable, is that it contained over
4,000 exhibits, mostly smali objects of all kinds from many periods and countries. Their task was
to represent famous people of the world: heroes from history, kings, ąueens, princes, military
commanders and brave travelers, scholars and writers, and especially romantic poets and couples
of lovers. Similarly to the Tempie of the Sibyl, there were old documents with seals, old letters and
prints, miniaturę coins and medals, various vessels and precious jewels. However, there were also
some purely sentimental items such as "twigs from the place where Troy was", "grass gathered
on the tomb of Fingal in Scotland" or "cypress twigs from the Alhambra and Generalife". Later
they became an object of ridicule for some critics who saw the collection of the Gothic House as
an absurd Wunderkammer. These people seem to neglect the fact that the House contained some
artifacts of human culture coming from the royal and imperial treasuries of Western Europę, from
the arsenals of Yienna and Brussels, and from the Treasury of The Order of the Golden Fleece.
Particularly distinguished parts of the collection were arms and armour of highest ąuality, and
a painting gallery with Leonardo da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine, Raphaels Portrait oj a Youth, and
Rembrandts Landscape with the Good Samaritan.
The Puławy Museums existed for thirty years, from 1801-1830. At the time of the Novem-
ber Uprising - the war with Russia (1830-1831) - the Museums were evacuated and the objects
hidden in various places in the country or even taken abroad. The Hotel Lambert, a palące in Paris,
became an emigration seat of the Czartoryski family. It was there that a grandson of Princess Iza-
bela, Ladislas Czartoryski, started a new wave of art collecting, in the grand style. In 1876, Princess
Czartoryski s Museum was finally installed in Cracow, where it has survived all the successive tem-
pests of history and nowbelongs to the Foundation of the Princes Czartoryski, where it continues
Princess Izabelas tradition, in serving the Nation and the World.