Giovanni Battista Gisleni
- Giovanni Battista Gisleni
Giovanni Battista Gisleni ("Jan Baptysta Gisleni, Gislenius, Ghisleni") born 1600 in Rome, died 3 May 1672 in Rome, Italian Baroque architect, stage designer, theater director, singer, and musician at the court of three Polish kings of the Vasa dynasty: Zygmunt III Waza, Władysław IV Waza and Jan II Kazimierz in years1630-1668 . Gisleni's grave in church Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome, is in form of memento mori, showing an intricately carved skeleton figure of Death.
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)
* 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" published in London - 116 mostly unrealized projects
* "12 drawings". Milan, Castello Sforzesco.
* architectural projects by Gisleni and other architects. Dresden,Kupferstichkab.;"Skizzenbuch des G. Chiaveri".
External links
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/psiko/243093451/ Gisleni's Memento mori in Santa Maria del Popolo]
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