Michelangelo Palloni

Michelangelo Palloni (1637[1]—1712) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, who worked in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1674 onward.

Michelangelo Palloni, fresco The Wedding of Psyche's Sisters, c. 1688, Wilanów Palace.

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Palloni was born at Campi Bisenzio, Florence. In 1688, he became a court painter of the Polish king Jan III Sobieski.[2] He was a pupil of Baldassare Franceschini (Il Volterrano)[3]

Works

Frescoes and paintings in:

Pažaislis Monastery in Kaunas, Lithuania
Krasiński Palace, Warsaw, Poland
The Open and Closed Galleries of Wilanów Palace (1688), Warsaw, Poland
Chapel of St. Casimir in Vilnius Cathedral (1692), Lithuania
Sapieha Palace in Vilnius, Lithuania
Churches in Łowicz (1695) and in Węgrów (1706–08), Poland

References

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. p. 92.
(in English) "Michelangelo Palloni". wilanow-palac.art.pl. Retrieved 2011-11-02.
Hobbes, JR. p92.

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