Pompeo Ferrari Explained

Pompeo Ferrari (circa 1660  - 15 May 1736) 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 (disputed) and tombs in the parish church
• Urban foundation of Rydzyna
• Ląd Abbey
  • • Basilica on the Holy Mountain near Gostyń Teodor Potocki's chapel at the Cathedral in Gniezno Fara Church in Poznań

Bibliography

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