Brenna Rooms. Bedroom

Brenna’s Rooms. The Bedroom
Historical names: Room No 5 (early 19th c.); “bathroom” (1st half of 19th c.); “Third guestroom” mid-19th c.)
Other names: Guest Rooms (19th and 20th c.)
Time of construction: 1780s
Artists: Vincenzo Brenna 1780s

The bedroom belongs to the one-story apartment, in the north wing, arranged in the 1780s in times of Prince Stanisław Lubomirski, GMC and his wife, Duchess Izabella née Czartoryska (1736-1815) in the original 17th-century vaulted interiors of the Łańcut castle erected by Prince Stanisław Lubomirski (1583-1649), the first member of this family to own Łańcut. In this room, there was a bathroom, then a bedroom - from the mid-nineteenth century as a guest room. The apartment now comprises a living room, a bedroom and a corridor leading up to them. The bedroom is a rectangular interior with a flat ceiling with a curved facette added at that time, with two windows in the north wall and an entrance door leading from the living room and a fireplace in the eastern wall. On the bedroom walls, six large panneaux framed by pilaster strips, with painted decorations, repainted and supplemented, in a candelabra arrangement, with motifs of masks, vases and medallions with figures of ancient deities; an overdoor with sphinxes in a symmetrical arrangement, a panel with candelabra decorations above the mirror. The ceiling is covered with polychrome with a fan-shaped rosette in the middle and with arabesque-grotesque motifs. In the centre of the wall, there is an eastern white marble fireplace from the times of the great renovation and modernisation works carried out by the 3rd ordinate Roman Potocki (1851-1915) and his wife, Elżbieta née Radziwiłł.

Bibliography:
Inventory of the Łańcut Castle, Extract, AGAD APŁ 786 Kossakowska-Szanajca Zofia, Majewska-Maszkowska Bożenna, Zamek w Łańcucie, Warsaw 1964, pp. 144-150 Majewska-Maszkowska Bożenna, Mecenat artystyczny Izabelli z Czartoryskich Lubomirskiej 1736-1816, Wrocław-Warsaw-Krakow 1976, woodcut reproduction, p. 146 Omilanowska Małgorzata, Sito Jakub, Katalog zabytków sztuki w Polsce, seria nowa vol. III, book 5, Warsaw 1994, p. 27