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Name
  
Giovanni Gisleni

Role
  
Architect

Died
  
May 3, 1672, Rome, Italy


Giovanni Battista Gisleni

Structures
  
Church of the Presentation, Lviv

Carthusian baroque Roman Catholic Monastery of the Holy Cross in Beryoza, BELARUS


Giovanni Battista Gisleni (Jan Baptysta Gisleni, Gislenius, Ghisleni) (1600 – 3 May 1672) was an Italian Baroque architect, stage designer, theater director, singer, and musician at the Polish royal court.

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Giovanni Battista Gisleni Funerary Monument of Giovanni Battista Gisleni 1670 Santa Maria

Gisleni was born and died in Rome. He served three Polish kings of the Vasa dynasty: Zygmunt III Waza, Władysław IV Waza and Jan II Kazimierz, during the years 1630-1668. Gisleni's tomb in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome takes the form of a memento mori, showing an intricately carved skeleton figure of Death.

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Filmato Via Giovanni Battista Gisleni


Main works

  • Biaroza monastery of the Carthusians in present-day Belarus (1648)
  • Church of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns in Lviv (1642)
  • Church of the Discalced Carmelites in Warsaw (1652)
  • project of an altar for the Miraculous Icon of Black Madonna of Częstochowa, Jasna Góra in Częstochowa (circa 1630)
  • Baroque Altar funded by bishop Piotr Gembicki in the Wawel Cathedral (circa 1650)

    • Publications

  • Varii disegni d'architettura inventati e delineati da Gio:Battista Gisleni Romano architetto delle MMta et Sermo Prencipe di Polonia e Sueta Sir John Soane's Museum, London - 116 mostly unrealized projects
  • 12 drawings. Milan, Castello Sforzesco.
  • Architectural projects by Gisleni and other architects. Dresden, Kupferstichkab.; Skizzenbuch des G. Chiaveri.

    • References

    Giovanni Battista Gisleni Wikipedia
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