Part of the park in Łańcut with Glorietta

A fragment of the park in Łańcut with a gloriette The photograph shows a gloriette, a park-like structure located on the north-western bastion of the fortifications, built around 1810, from a design by Chrystian Piotr Aigner. The Classicist gloriette is composed of eight Corinthian columns set on a low plinth, supporting a beam. In the gloriette, on a cylindrical pedestal, is a marble statue of Diana by Prosper d’Epinay made in Rome in 1899. (see B. Trojnar, Rzeźba w Muzeum-Zamku w Łańcucie. Dzieje kolekcji, ekspozycja, katalog, Łańcut 2006. p. 270, item 149). In front of the gloriette there are flowerbeds and bushes, with trees in the background. The photograph was taken in the summer. The photograph was taken by Dr Józef Piotrowski (1873–1939), a Lviv art historian. From 1 June 1920 to 1929, he served as a conservator at the Lviv Voivodeship Office (see Piotr Lasek, Inwentaryzacja zabytków architektury w lwowskim okręgu konserwatorskim 1920-1939. Szkice z dziejów, Warsaw: Instytut Sztuki PAN, 2020, pp. 32–62). He was the author of the study Zamek w Łańcucie. Zwięzły opis dziejów i zbiorów and the author of photographic documentation of the Łańcut Castle, its interiors and collections, today owned by the Łańcut Castle Museum (among others, albums, volumes I-X, Lviv 1936) and the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (albums, volumes I-IX, Lviv 1929). Barbara Trojnar