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  2. Architecture of Poland - Wikipedia

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    The architecture of Poland includes modern and historical monuments of architectural and historical importance. Several important works of Western architecture, such as the Wawel Hill , the Książ and Malbork castles, cityscapes of Toruń , Zamość , and Kraków are located in the country.

  3. Architecture of Warsaw - Wikipedia

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    Gothic architecture is represented in the majestic churches but also at the burgher houses and fortifications.The most significant buildings are St. John's Cathedral (14th century), the temple is a typical example of the so-called Masovian gothic style, St. Mary's Church (1411), a town house of Burbach family (14th century), [1] Gunpowder Tower (after 1379) and the Royal Castle Curia Maior ...

  4. Cultural history of Poland - Wikipedia

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    The cultural history of Poland is closely associated with the field of Polish studies, interpreting the historical records with regard not only to its painting, sculpture and architecture, but also, the economic basis underpinning the Polish society by denoting the various distinctive ways of cohabitation by an entire group of people. Cultural ...

  5. Culture of medieval Poland - Wikipedia

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    Polish law begun to develop as legal texts recorded laws in secular chancelleries. [1] Polish science also developed, as works of Polish scholars became known abroad. [1] Notable examples of Polish scholarly texts discussed in the Western Europe include a chronicle of popes and emperors by Martinus Polonus and the treatise on optics by Witelo. [1]

  6. Mannerist architecture and sculpture in Poland - Wikipedia

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    The architecture of the 16th-century Polish mannerism is marked by common usage of richly embellished attics of palaces and houses, arcade courtyards and side towers. [11] The church architecture combined the late gothic tradition with renaissance symmetry and mannerist decoration. Churches were slender, usually without towers.

  7. Timeline of architectural styles - Wikipedia

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    Architectural style • Architecture timeline: 1900–present. 6000BC–1000AD • 1000–1750 • 1750–1900 • 1900–Present

  8. Romanesque architecture in Poland - Wikipedia

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    Romanesque architecture in Poland dates back to the 11th century to the reign of Casimir I the Restorer. It was developed in and ranging approximately from the 11th century until well into the half 13th century and it was succeeded by Polish Gothic architecture .

  9. Baroque in Poland - Wikipedia

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    Early Polish baroque buildings were often designed by foreign (most often, Italian) architects. The first baroque building in present-day Poland was the Saints Peter and Paul Church, Kraków by Giovanni Battista Trevano. The Jewish population in this period was large and prosperous, and many handsome Polish Jewish synagogues were built in ...