page_title: Palace on the Isle
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Palace on the Isle / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Galeria obrazów w Pałacu na Wyspie w Łazienkach Królewskich w Warszawie (2/2 z 1.07.1965)English: The gallery of paintings in the Łazienki Palace in Warsaw (listed in the Register of Historic Monuments on 1.07.1965, reference no. 2/2)
context_page_description: The Palace on the Isle, also known as Baths Palace, is a classicist palace in Warsaw's Royal Baths Park, the city's largest park, occupying over 76 hectares of the city center.
  From 1674 the property and the nearby Ujazdów Castle belonged to Count Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski, who commissioned a Baroque bath house called "Łazienka", similarly to a number of other European historic sites, including England's city of Bath. The building, erected on a square plan, was richly decorated with stuccos, statues, and paintings; some of the original decorations and architectural details survive.
  In 1766 King Stanisław II Augustus purchased the estate and converted the bathing pavilion into a classicist summer residence, with an English garden.
  During the final stages of World War II, the retreating Germans devastated the interior of the Palace and drilled holes in the structure in preparation for destruction. However, the plan was never carried out.
context_section_description: The palace is built on an artificial island that divides the lake into two parts, a smaller northern lake and a larger southern one. The palace is connected to the surrounding park by two Ionic colonnaded bridges. The façades are unified by an entablature carried by giant Corinthian pilasters that link its two floors and are crowned by a balustrade that bears statues of mythologic figures. The north façade is relieved by a central pedimented portico. On the south front, a deep central recess lies behind a screen of Corinthian columns.
caption: Paintings gallery
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