Giuseppe Brizio

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Giuseppe Brizio SJ (* around 1533 ; † March 2, 1604 in Rome ) was an early Roman Baroque architect who worked at the court of the Polish kings.

Life and works

Former Collegiate Church of St. John in Jarosław

The Jesuit Brizio was sent to Poland as an architect and arrived in Poznan on June 24, 1575 . Shortly afterwards he went to Jarosław, where he planned the construction of the Jesuit college in September. He then worked as a restorer in Pułtusk . In 1577 he visited Cracow . In 1580 he began building the Jesuit college in Jarosław. In 1593 he built the Collegiate Church of St. John in Jarosław, which was consecrated on April 24, 1594.

literature

  • Rūstis Kamuntavičius among others: Artisti del lago di Lugano e del Mendrisiotto in Lituania , in Giorgio Mollisi (ed.): Gli artisti del lago di Lugano e del Mendrisiotto nel Granducato di Lituania (from XVI to XVIII sec.) . "Arte & Storia", Edizioni Ticino Management, Lugano 2013 (13th year, No. 59, August / October 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Brizio, Giuseppe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brizzi, Giuseppe; Brizio, Józef (Polish); Briccius, Józef (Polish); Pritius, Josephus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-Polish architect
DATE OF BIRTH around 1533
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1604
Place of death Rome