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Prince Józef Antoni Poniatowski Monument, Warsaw

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form. The project was not well received by critics and the public who were expecting to see the warrior clad in the armour of a soldier, while Thorvaldsen introduced him as a half-naked Roman general.
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to place the monument in front of the Governor's Palace (which is now the Presidential Palace). The monument was commissioned in 1817 from Danish sculptor
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The monument to Prince Józef Poniatowski returned to independent Poland in 1922, as part of the recovery of monuments and works of art under the
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The monument's creation was at the behest of Polish aristocracy. Polish aristocrat and diarist Anna Potocka obtained permission from the
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Zarządzenie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 8 września 1994 r. w sprawie uznania za pomnik historii.
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Germans obscure the monument on the eve of the 1st anniversary of the invasion of Poland, August 30, 1940
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Based on the model, Klaudiusz and Emil Gregoire's foundry in Długa Street in Warsaw made a
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A fragment of the original statue in the Freedom Park at the Warsaw Uprising Museum
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Atlas dawnej architektury ulic i placów Warszawy. Tom 7 – Krakowskie Przedmieście
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The remains of the original sculpture, found in April 1945, in the ruins of the
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in Copenhagen, was made by Poul Lauritz Rasmussen, and donated to Warsaw by the
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cast which was completed in August, 1832. Meanwhile, as a result of the failed
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A new cast of the sculpture, made from 1948 to 1951, based on a model at the
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The monument was blown up on December 16, 1944, on the orders of
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Buildings and structures in Poland destroyed during World War II
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A German parade in front of the monument, September/October 1939
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The monument as seen from the windows of the Presidential Palace
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Warsaw – historic city center with the Royal Route and Wilanów
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Thorvaldsen's original plaster model is on display in the
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German sentries in front of the monument, in 1939 or 1940
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It originally stood in the courtyard of the 18:Monument to Prince Józef Poniatowski in Warsaw 930: 276:In 1829, in Warsaw, he presented a life-size 228:(1763–1813) riding and horse and dressed as 378: 260: 208:) is a monument currently located at 46/48 198:Prince Józef Poniatowski Monument in Warsaw 28:Prince Józef Poniatowski Monument in Warsaw 1005:Bertel Thorvaldsen with the Statue of Hope 937: 923: 40: 815: 701: 446:In front of the Saxon Palace, Summer 1920 287: 751: 726: 619: 338: 315:Later in 1840, the statue was taken to 14: 1100: 1012:Nicolaus Copernicus Monument, Montreal 944: 682:"Pomnik księcia Józefa Poniatowskiego" 918: 1143:Sculptures in the Thorvaldsen Museum 998:Nicolaus Copernicus Monument, Warsaw 909:Józef Poniatowski Monument in Warsaw 879:"Park Wolności pachnący hiacyntami" 334: 24: 976:Józef Poniatowski Monument, Warsaw 853:Grzesiuk-Olszewska, Irena (2003). 756:. Warsaw: PTTK Kraj. p. 168. 731:. 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Monument to Prince Józef Poniatowski in Warsaw

52°14′34.08″N 21°00′55.69″E / 52.2428000°N 21.0154694°E / 52.2428000; 21.0154694
Krakowskie Przedmieście
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Equestrian statue
Historic Monument of Poland
Polish
Krakowskie Przedmieście
Presidential Palace
Rome
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Józef Poniatowski
Roman
Józef Poniatowski
monument of Marcus Aurelius
Capitoline Hill
Tsar
Bertel Thorvaldsen
plaster
classicist
bronze
November Uprising
Modlin Fortress
St. George
Nicholas I
Dęblin
Paskevich Palace
Gomel
Ivan Paskevich

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