Sebastian Sierakowskis treatise and the problem of disseminating architectural knowledge in the Duchy of Warsaw

• Authors: Getka-Keng Mikołaj
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Sebastian Sierakowski published his unprecedented Polish-language textbook of architectural knowledge for a specific society at a special historical moment, in which universal and at the same time comprehensive knowledge of classical architectural principles was - in his opinion - very necessary and useful for this society. The "resurrection" of the Polish state in the form of the Duchy of Warsaw, not only boiling down to restoring their eternal statehood to the Poles, but also resulting in a far-reaching reform of the sub-partition internal relations, was particularly justified by taking up the subject of reforming construction on the public forum due to its crucial importance for quality social life. Even if the architecture covering all kinds of bricklaying and building did not meet with wider interest on the part of contemporaries, and its content is not entirely original (from our modern point of view, one could even accuse Sierakowski of plagiarism), its publication should be considered an important event in the history Polish thoughts about architecture not only because of unprecedented volume and multithreading. With the task of making the elite idiom a common good, Sierakowski's treatied the ambition to adapt the social range of architectural knowledge to the changing realities shaped by the political situation in Napoleonic Poland.

• Publisher: Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Institute of History of Art
• Journal: Modus. Prace z historii sztuki
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 18
• Pages: 93-122

Dates

published

2018

Contributors

author

Getka-Keng Mikołaj

• Instytut Historii Sztuki UJ