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Elżbieta "Izabela" Dorota Czartoryska ( née Flemming; 3 March 1746 – 15 July 1835) was a Polish princess, writer, art collector, and prominent figure in the Polish Enlightenment. She was the wife of Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski and a member of the influential Familia political party. She is also known for having founded Poland's first museum ...
Not only was her private life renowned for being abundantly sensational, but Czartoryska’s collection – initially exhibited at Poland’s first museum, the Temple of the Sybil and Gothic House in Puławy – was assembled with similar, at times scandalous, bravado.
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Aug 26, 2017 · The Czartoryski Museum. A keen traveller and collector of art, Princess Izabela created the first Polish museum at her palace in Krakow, with the intention of preserving Polish history and culture. Her ‘Temple of Memory’ housed a variety of treasures from both Polish and global history, including chairs belonging to William Shakespeare and ...
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Apr 19, 2019 · The original chair was indeed long gone. In the summer of 1790, the Polish Princess Izabela Dorota Czartoryska née Flemming (1746-1835), aristocrat, patron, writer, landscape gardener, and art collector, showed up in Stratford as part of her tour through England and Scotland.
Princess Izabela Czartoryska (1746-1835) was a member of one of Poland’s most prominent aristocratic families. She was a writer, patron of the arts, and founder of Poland’s first museum, the Czartoryski Museum. Politically and socially active, Izabela also travelled around Europe. Her manuscript diary of her tour through England and ...
Izabela Czartoryska was an incredibly influential figure during her lifetime, and in the centuries since. I, for one, am very grateful to her, as a Polish historian. My deep interest in the Polish Enlightenment, in Polish history and culture, really began when I first learned of her and visited Pulawy during my early university years.
Apr 30, 2012 · He himself never laid out a garden or regulated a natural landscape. However, his wife, Princess Izabela, did both (figure 2). She created gardens at Powązki and at Pulawy, extended her control over a wide countryside and influenced numerous gardens in Poland. She was considered by her contemporaries an authority in gardening matters.
