Michelangelo Palloni

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

Michelangelo Palloni (1637 —1712) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, who worked in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1674 onward. Palloni was born at Campi Bisenzio, Florence.

Biography Palloni studied art in Florence and was a pupil of Baldassare Franceschini (Il Volterrano). Here he began his career, creating several frescoes, altarpieces, portraits and tapestries. In 1676, he came to Lithuania at the invitation of the Grand Hetman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Michał Kazimierz Pac. In the same year, Palloni decorated the Wilanów Palace and the Camaldolese Church in Bielany. Later he worked for Polish and Lithuanian noble families in Warsaw, Vilnius, Leszno and Węgrów.

Major 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