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25-Aug-2019 Jola Dziubinska

Renaissance Tenant Houses

Kazimierz Dolny, Poland

Tenant houses of the Przybyla brothers – St. Nicolas' and St. Christopher’s tenant houses.

The tenant houses were erected around 1615 by townspeople – brothers Mikolaj (Nicolas) and Krzysztof (Christopher) Przybyla. They are examples of late Renaissance (mannerist) architecture, combining the local construction tradition with the influence from the Netherlands and Italy.
Both tenant houses have the same layout of facades: the first floor with three arcades and the upper floor with three windows. The facades are decorated with bas-reliefs picturing people and animals, as well as with floral ornaments. The decorations represent the morals, the mythology, Christian symbolism, medieval phantasies and renaissance grotesques.
The decorative elements are made of stucco. Both houses are crowned with some of the most beautiful renaissance high attics in Poland.


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carol j. phipps13-Sep-2019 16:15
Gorgeous! Amazing structure. Were these Tenant Houses always owned by individuals and lived in by families, or rented out? They are not what I would naturally think of as a tenant house. V
John Reynolds LRPS03-Sep-2019 19:34
Impressive building which looks good in the sunlight. V.
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