The study addresses the issue of the image of gardens recorded in the diaries and correspondence of noblemen and magnates from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth who went on educational trips around Europe in the second ...

During a fire in 1595, the interiors and ceilings of the rooms on the second floor were destroyed: the audience (throne) hall, the royal vestibule, the chancellery hall, and the senatorial vestibule. Kurza Stopka and the ...

The fashion for collecting rare plants in Europe dates back to the Renaissance. In the eighteenth century, conservatories and the collections of exotic plants were an important components of the estates of the Polish ...

The rich, spontaneously growing vegetation of the Puławy garden, “born of nature”, served to create an atmosphere of moodiness, emotionality and mystery, conducive to the release of specific feelings and memories. Plants ...

The residence in Gołuchów, including the castle and adjacent green areas, rebuilt by Izabela Działyńska née Czartoryska (1830–1899) with her husband Jan (1829–1880), has been the subject of many studies. The castle houses ...

The author of the article found in the Dresden collections a previously unpublished iconography of a palace, the so-called castle in Bolimów with a garden, a plan for transforming the garden, two detailed plans of the town ...

The aim of the article is to present various techniques of plant conservation and preparation, especially in the period until the end of the 18th century. It shows the museum aspect of botanical collections. However, the ...

The subject of this article are 18th-century methods of making perfumes in the context of garden layouts of that time. The plants grown there were often used not only for cooking and in medicine, but also to produce broadly ...

The park in Sceaux near Paris was created at the end of the 17th century according to the plans of Andre Le Nôtre for the Minister of Finance of Louis XIV, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, along with a palace in the French Baroque ...