Giovanni Battista Gisleni
Giovanni Battista Gisleni was an Italian Baroque architect, stage designer, theater director, singer, and musician at the Polish-Lithuanian royal court.
Gisleni was born and died in Rome. He served three Polish-Lithuanian kings of the Vasa dynasty: Sigismund III, Władysław IV and John II Casimir, 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.
Main works
- Biaroza monastery of the Carthusians in present-day Belarus
- Church of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns in Lviv
- Church of the Discalced Carmelites in Warsaw
- project of an altar for the Miraculous Icon of Black Madonna of Częstochowa, Jasna Góra in Częstochowa
- Baroque Altar funded by bishop Piotr Gembicki in the Wawel Cathedral
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 projects12 drawings. Milan, Castello Sforzesco.- Architectural projects by Gisleni and other architects. Dresden, Kupferstichkab.; Skizzenbuch des G. Chiaveri.