Giovanni Battista Gisleni

Giovanni Battista Gisleni (also: Jan Baptysta and Jan Chrzciciel and Gislenius or Ghisleni, * in Rome in 1600, † May 3, 1672 ) was an Italian architect of the Baroque, stage designer, theater director and musician. He looked at the courts of several Polish kings.

Life

Gisleni, native Romans, who also died in his hometown and was buried, was used ( above all as a royal architect) from 1630 to 1668 three Polish rulers from the Vasa dynasty, Sigismund III. Wasa, Władysław IV Vasa, and John II Casimir. Its designed in the form of a memento mori tomb 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 construction of the Warsaw Royal Castle (1637-1642)
  • Church of the Carmelite monastery in Lviv ( 1642)
  • Carthusian Monastery in Bjarosa in today's Belarus ( 1648)
  • Altar of the Wawel Cathedral in Krakow ( 1650 )
  • Later destroyed Warsaw Palace of Charles Ferdinand Vasa (1638-1643)
  • Former January Leszczynski Palace instead of the present palace of the Government Commission for revenue and finance ( 1650 )
  • Mary and Joseph Church of the Carmelites in Warsaw ( 1652)
  • Conversion of St. Anne 's Church of the Benedictines at the Warsaw Krakowskie Przedmieście - together with Tito Livio Burattini ( 1658-1667 )
  • Construction of the "Res Sacra Miser " building instead of spent Kazanowski Palace ( 1663 )
  • Wasa Obelisk in Wyszków
  • Expansion of the castle building in the monastery of Płock
  • Altar of the Cathedral of Chełmża
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