Giovanni Battista Gisleni
Giovanni Battista Gisleni (also: Jan Baptysta or Jan Chrzciciel and Gislenius or Ghisleni , * 1600 in Rome , † May 3, 1672 ibid) was an Italian Baroque architect , set designer , theater director and musician. He worked at the courts of several Polish kings.
Life
Gisleni, a native Roman, who also died and was buried in his hometown, served (primarily as a royal architect, theater and opera director) from 1630 to 1668 three Polish rulers from the Wasa dynasty : Sigismund III. Wasa , Władysław IV. Wasa and John II Casimir . His tomb, designed in the form of a memento mori , is in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome. Gisleni is described as a representative of the mature Roman baroque.
Works (selection)
- Interior of the Warsaw Royal Castle (1637–1642)
- Church of the Carmelite Monastery in Lviv (1642)
- Carthusian monastery in Bjarosa in what is now Belarus (1648)
- Altar of Wawel Cathedral in Krakow (around 1650)
- Later destroyed Warsaw palace of Karl Ferdinand Wasa (1638–1643)
- The former Jan Leszczyński Palace replacing the current Palace of the Government Commission for Income and Finance (around 1650)
- Church of Mary and Joseph of the Carmelites in Warsaw (1652)
- Reconstruction of the Benedictine Church of St. Anne at Krakowskie Przedmieście in Warsaw - together with Tito Livio Burattini (1658 to 1667)
- New construction of the "Res Sacra Miser" building in place of the burned down Kazanowski Palace (1663)
- Vasa Obelisk in Wyszków
- Extension of the castle building in the Płock monastery
- Altar of Chełmża Cathedral
Web links
Brief information and building list at Warszawa1939.pl (pol.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c according to Boźena Wierzbicka, Maria Łotyszowa (Red), The Old Town and the Royal Castle in Warsaw , Arkady Publishing House, ISBN 83-213-3530-6 , Warsaw 1988, p. 37
- ↑ according to Walther Buchowiecki, Handbook of the Churches of Rome, The Roman Sacred Building in History and Art from Early Christian Times to the Present , Volume 3, The Churches within the Walls of Rome: S. Maria della Neve to S. Susanna , Hollinek, 1974, p. 148
- ↑ a b according to Mariusz Karpowicz, Baroque in Poland, The History of art in Poland , ISBN 9788321334127 , Arkady, Warsaw 1991, p. 49 f.
- ↑ according to Jerzy Lileyko, The Royal Castle in Warsaw , Interpress Publishing House, ISBN 83-223-1957-6 , Warsaw 1981, p. 38
- ↑ according to Julius A. Chroscicki and Andrzej Rottermund, Architectural Atlas of Warsaw , 1st edition, Arkady, Warsaw 1978, p. 84
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gisleni, Giovanni Battista |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ghisleni, Jan Baptysta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1600 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 1672 |
| Place of death | Rome |