Empire wallpapers from the palace of Walewice

Abstract

In one of the rooms of the Walewice palace there are preserved panoramic wallpapers presenting antiquated genre scenes. The present text concerns research issues connected with the above mentioned wall coverings. The article was divided in three parts - the first concerns the provenance, the second presents an iconographic analysis and the last one describes differences between wallpapers from the same cycle, located in different areas of the world. An attempt was made to determine the allegoric function, to interpret the musical, erotic motive as well as to analyze the symbols contained in the depicted composition. The topics raised in the article were completed by means of formal, iconographic and comparative analysis.