Michelangelo Palloni

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Michelangelo Palloni (Campi Bisenzio, Florence; 1637^[1]—1712) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, who worked in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1674 onward. In 1688, Palloni became a court painter of the Polish king Jan III Sobieski. He was a pupil of Baldassare Franceschini (Il Volterrano)^[2]

[edit] Works

Frescoes and paintings in:

• Pažaislis monastery in Kaunas, Lithuania
• St. Peter and St. Paul's Church in Vilnius, Lithuania
• Krasiński Palace, Warsaw, Poland
• Wilanów Palace (1688), Warsaw, Poland
• The Chapel of St. Casimir in Vilnius Cathedral (1692), Lithuania
• Sapieha Palace in Vilnius, Lithuania
• Churches in Łowicz (1695) and in Węgrów (1706–1708), Poland

[edit] References

1. ^ Hobbes, James R. (1849). Picture collector's manual adapted to the professional man, and the amateur. T&W Boone, 29 Bond Street; Digitized by Googlebooks, page 92. 
2. ^ Hobbes, JR. p92.