Arcadia Restituta

• Authors: Piwkowski Włodzimierz

Title variants

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Arcadia Restituta

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

On 15 June 1994 the Museum in Nieborow and Arkadia received a prestigious award granted by the Toeffler Family Foundation F. V. S. (Europa-Preis fur Denkmalphlege 1994) from Hamburg for the preparation and realisation of a complex restoration of the Romantic garden in Arkadia. The garden complex in Arkadia was founded in 1778 by princess Helena Radziwiłł who was also the author of the ideological conception of an Arcadian park, realised by the architects Szymon Bogumił Zug and Henryk Ittar, the painter Jean-Pierre Norblin, and the sculptor Gioacchino Staggi. The garden, whose most important part has survived, required capital conservation and adaptation to new functions. Work on a suitable project started in 1980, and the subsequent restoration of the park included plants, the conservation of water and communication arrangements and garden architecture. The Pantheon, Etruscan Study, Bedroom and Vestibule — interiors of the Temple of Diana, the central building in Arkadia — were restored and partially reconstructed, together with their murals, stucco and interior decoration. The Temple also houses a display of the ancient art collection belonging to Helena Radziwiłł. Restoration work was performed in other pavilions and garden buildings: the Retreat of the Archpriest, the House of the Margrave, the Gothic Cottage, the Stone Arch and the Circus. The area of the old park was adapted to the requirements of tourist excursions and to its role as a recreation area and regional centre of art events.

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 1995
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 259-265

Dates

published

1995

Contributors

author

Piwkowski Włodzimierz

References

• J. Wegner, Arkadia, Warszawa 1948;
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• K. z Tańskich Hoffmanowa, Wybor pism, t. 6 — Opisy rożnych okolic Krolestwa Polskiego, cz. 2, Wrocław 1833, s. 246 i n.;
• L. Dembowski, Moje wspomnienia, Petersburg 1898, t. 1, s. 148.

Identifiers

ISSN

0029-8247