The Residence of a Humanist Scholar. The Villa Mirów of Piotr Myszkowski, Bishop of Kraków, at Książ Wielki

Abstract

The article discusses the history and architecture of the villa of the bishop of Krakow, Piotr Myszkowski, in Książ Wielki, built in the years 1585–1595 by the Florentine sculptor and architect, Santi Gucci. The entire residential complex is classified by researchers as one of the most important types of developments in the 16th-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.