Neoclassical architecture in Poland

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Neoclassical architecture in Poland was centered on Warsaw under the reign of Stanisław August Poniatowski, while the modern concept of a single capital city was to some extent inapplicable in the decentralized Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.The above mentioned buildings cannot in any way be compared with what was built in Warsaw at that time, because Warsaw become the real artistic capital of Poland. Much of the artistic work done in Warsaw was thanks to the sponsorship of Stanisław August. The creative artists gathered there and the most outstanding architects of the classicist period were very active. At that time, Kraków become artistically provincial. {{cite book |author=Michał Rożek, Doris Ronowicz|title=Cracow: a treasury of Polish culture and art|year=1988|page=74|publisher=Interpress Publishers|isbn=83-223-2245-3}}{{cite web |author=John Stanley |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3763/is_200403/ai_n9363971/?tag=content;col1 |title=Literary Activities and Attitudes in the Stanislavian Age in Poland (1764–1795): A Social System? |work=findarticles.com |date=March–June 2004 |access-date=2009-04-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514133024/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3763/is_200403/ai_n9363971/?tag=content%3Bcol1 |archive-date=2011-05-14 |url-status=dead }}{{cite book|title=Trade and urban development in Poland: an economic geography of Cracow, from its origins to 1795 – Volume 20 of Cambridge studies in historical geography|year=1994|author=Francis W. Carter|pages=186, 187|publisher=Cambridge University Press | isbn=978-0-521-41239-1}} Classicism came to Poland in the 18th century as the result of French infiltrations into the Polish millieu.{{cite book |author=Marek Kwiatkowski|title=Stanisław August, król-architekt (Stanislaus Augustus, the king-architect)|year=1983|page=274|publisher=Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich|isbn=83-04-00850-5}} The best-known architects and artists who worked in Poland were Dominik Merlini, Jan Chrystian Kamsetzer, Szymon Bogumił Zug, Stanisław Zawadzki, Efraim Szreger, Antonio Corazzi, Jakub Kubicki, Hilary Szpilowski, Christian Piotr Aigner, Wawrzyniec Gucewicz, Bonifacy Witkowski and Danish Bertel Thorvaldsen.{{cite book |author=Jon Stewart, Jon Bartley Stewart|title=Kierkegaard and his contemporaries: the culture of golden age Denmark|year=2003|page=[https://archive.org/details/kierkegaardhisco00stew/page/n409 394]|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=3-11-017762-5|url=https://archive.org/details/kierkegaardhisco00stew|url-access=limited}}

The first stage, called the Stanislavian style, followed by an almost complete inhibition and a period known as the Congress Kingdom classicism.{{cite book |author=Manfred Kridl|title=A survey of Polish literature and culture|year=1967 |pages=192, 343|publisher=Columbia University Press}} The palladian patterns were independently interpreted by Szymon Bogumił Zug, who followed an influence of radical French classicism.{{cite book |author=Wojciech Słowakiewicz|title=Wielka encyklopedia polski|year=2000|publisher=Fogra|url=http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/36860,,,,polska_sztuka,haslo.html|language=pl}} A palladian by influence was also Piotr Aigner - architect of the façade of St. Anne's Church, Warsaw (1786-1788) and St. Alexander Church (1818-1826). Palladian ideas were implemented in a popular type of a palace with a pillared portico.

The most famous buildings of the Stanislavian period include the Royal Castle, Warsaw, rebuilt by Dominik Merlini and Jan Christian Kamsetzer, Palace on the Water, Królikarnia and the palace in Jabłonna. Kamsetzer erected the Amphitheatre in the Royal Baths Park and the Warsaw palaces of the Raczyńskis and Tyszkiewiczs as well as the palace in Iskierniki. Among the most notable works by Szymon Bogumił Zug is a palace in Natolin and Holy Trinity Church and gardens: Solec, Powązki, Mokotów and Arcadia near Nieborów.

From the period of the Congress Kingdom are Koniecpolski Palace and the St. Alexander's Church, Warsaw, the Temple of the Sibyl in Puławy, rebuilding the Łańcut Castle. The leading figure in the Congress Kingdom was Antonio Corrazzi. Corazzi created the complex of Bank Square in Warsaw, the Palace of the Ministry of Revenues and Treasury, the building of the Staszic Palace, Mostowski Palace and designed the Grand Theatre. Belvedere and Pawłowice were created by Jakub Kubicki, while Lubostroń Palace and Dobrzyca Palace by Stanisław Zawadzki. The notable town halls in Łowicz, Płock, Błonie, Konin and Aleksandrów Łódzki are dating back the first half of the nineteenth century.