Pompeo Ferrari

Pompeo Ferrari (circa 1660 – 15 May 1736) was an Italian architect, known as the best Baroque artist of Greater Poland.

Fara Church in Poznań, 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

probably Leszno town hall and tombs in the parish church
urban foundation of Rydzyna
Ląd abbey
shrine in Gostyń
Teodor Potocki's chapel in Gniezno cathedral
Fara in Poznań

Bibliography

Dalbor, Witold. 1938. Pompeo Ferrari ok. 1660-1736: działalność architektoniczna w Polsce. Warszawa: Kasa Mianowskiego.

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