Pompeo Ferrari
Pompeo Ferrari was an Italian architect, known as the best Baroque artist of Greater Poland.
Biography
He studied in the leading art school of the era - Accademia [di San Luca] in Rome. After 1696, he lived in the court of the king Stanislaus I Leszczyński in Rydzyna. In 1703 he married Anna Rozyna Eitner, with whom he had several children.Main works
- Leszno town hall and tombs in the parish church
- Urban foundation of Rydzyna
- Ląd Abbey
- Basilica on the [Holy Mountain, Głogówko|Basilica on the Holy Mountain] near Gostyń
- Teodor Potocki's chapel at the Cathedral in Gniezno
- Fara Church in Poznań