Tag: Poland

The dynasty of the Jagiellonian extinct in 1572, with the death of Sigismund Augustus, under whose reign the royal union with Lithuania was achieved, the principle of the eligibility of the sovereign was fully consolidated in Poland. All the nobility took part in the election, agreeing to the purpose in large numbers in the vicinity…

It is at the end of the century. X and during the century. XI, that the first rulers of the Piasti dynasty completed the organization of the Polish state, taking as a model the state institutions of Western Europe, based on the state body of the Frankish monarchy. These models served above all as a…

After a period of decline, the last decades of the century. XVII saw a notable revival of the arts. The Palladian style was established in architecture, whose main representative was T. de Gameren (Krasiński palace in Warsaw, Sant’Anna in Krakow). The first half of the eighteenth century experienced a strong influence of German culture, thanks…