Count Stanislaw Kostka Potocki (1755-1821) was the Enlightenment personified. A descendant of one of the most famous Polish aristocratic families, educated in Warsaw, at the Collegium Nobilium, and in Italy, at an academy in Turin, he was successively or simultaneously a traveller, an archaeologist, an art critic, a political polemist, a historian, a connoisseur, a statesman, a high-ranking Freemason, and also a collector and patron of arts ...