Miodowa Street in Warsaw
Bernardo Bellotto, 1777
Miodowa Street in Warsaw is an oil-on-canvas painting that Bernardo Bellotto made in 1777, while serving as court painter to Stanisław August Poniatowski, King of Poland. It belongs to a series of twenty-two views of Warsaw that the artist produced with remarkable topographical care. The scene captures the meeting point of Miodowa Street and Senatorska Street. On the left stand the Episcopal Palace of Kraków and the Tepper Palace, built in 1774 to a design by Ephraim Schröger and no longer standing; on the right are the Branicki Palace and the Krasiński Palace. The series remained in the Royal Castle until 1822, when it was taken to Russia, and it returned to Poland in 1922. Its value is twofold: it is an accomplished example of vedutismo and a visual record of the city. After the Second World War, the painting served as evidence for rebuilding the Branicki Palace and the Episcopal Palace, both badly damaged.
- Painter
- Bernardo Bellotto
- Date
- 1777
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Dimensions
- 84 × 197 cm
- Museum
- Royal Castle in Warsaw, Warsaw
- Genre
- Veduta
- Depicts
- Miodowa Street
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