Lubomirsky Palace (Lviv)

Former Lubomirsky Palace

The Lubomirsky Palace is a monument of Baroque architecture in Lviv ( Ukraine ). Located in the central part of the city, on Rynok Square , 10.

Lubomirsky Palace is one of the most successful examples of public architecture in Lviv in the 18th century . From the street I. Fedorov is a stone portal, in the castle stone of which is placed a carved cartouche with the date 1695 . However, the layout of the cellars and the Gothic lancet arches preserved in them testify to the earlier foundation of the building.

The building was rebuilt in the 1760s by architects B. Meretin and M. Urbanik according to the project of Jan de Witt on the site of several philistine stone-houses (among which was also the house of the Lviv Latin-language poet Shimon Shimonovich ). The customer and owner of the palace was Stanislav Lubomirsky ( 1709 - 1793 ), governor of Bratslav. The exterior of the building is light, ceremonial. The building is made of brick, plastered, in the plan is an elongated rectangle with a small courtyard, three-story. It takes a quarter between the market square, the streets of Russkaya and Ivan Fedorov. The palace has three open facades. The front, most elegant facade is facing Market Square. It is decorated with pilasters with molded elegant capitals, the windows are framed by platbands with garlands, it has balconies with delicate metal bars, based on curly brackets. The bottom of the Lubomirsky Palace is heavier, the upper floors are rhythmically dissected by pilasters and shoulder blades. The building ends with a patterned attic, composed of oval hatches and sculptures. The facades facing the streets of Russkaya and I. Fedorova are much easier to solve. Flat pilasters with capitals are breaking up the smooth surface of the walls; windows are framed by a strict form of platbands.

The sculptural decoration of the building belongs to S. Fesinger, made by the master S. Kodetsky. The allegorical decor is pronounced in the design of a rounded corner, composed of military and chivalrous emblems.

In 1895, the building was bought by the Enlightenment Society and became known as the Enlightenment House. The building housed a number of Ukrainian cultural and educational institutions. He was visited by Ivan Franko , Lesya Ukrainka , Ethel Voynich , Vasily Stefanik and others. In the Soviet period, there were opened funds of the museum of the Lviv branch of the Institute of Art, Folklore and Ethnography. M. T. Rylsky Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (now - Institute of Ethnology).