Dominik Merlini

Italian architect

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Dominik Merlini was an Italian architect who worked in Poland during the Classicism period, roughly between 1750 and 1830. He was instrumental in bringing the Louis XVI style from France to Poland, collaborating on interiors for the Royal Castle in Warsaw between 1776 and 1785. Merlini also designed the Łazienki Palace near Warsaw, which he worked on from 1775 to 1793. His influence extended to his pupil, Jakub Kubicki, and another Italian architect, Antonio Corazzi, who contributed to rebuilding Warsaw as a Neoclassical city after 1815.1

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…series of interiors designed by Dominik Merlini and Jan Chrystian Kamsetzer in 1776–85. Merlini also designed the Łazienki Palace at Ujazdów near Warsaw (1775–93) for the king, while Szymon Bogumił Zug brought Neoclassicism to ecclesiastical architecture in his Lutheran Church, Warsaw (1777–81), modeled on the Pantheon. Zug also designed Arkadia…
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…series of interiors designed by Dominik Merlini and Jan Chrystian Kamsetzer in 1776–85. Merlini also designed the Łazienki Palace at Ujazdów near Warsaw (1775–93) for the king, while Szymon Bogumił Zug brought Neoclassicism to ecclesiastical architecture in his Lutheran Church, Warsaw (1777–81), modeled on the Pantheon. Zug also designed Arkadia…
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