Giovanni Battista Gisleni
Illustration — Detail of Gisleni's tomb in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome. • Illustration — The Biaroza monastery – painting by Napoleon Orda Giovanni Battista Gisleni (1600 – 3 May 1672) was an Italian Baroque architect, stage designer, theater director, singer, and musician at the Polish-Lithuanian royal court. Gisleni was born and died in Rome. Gisleni's tomb in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome takes the form of a memento mori, showing an intricately carved skeleton figure of Death.
Also recorded as Giambattista Gisleni · Giovanni Battista Ghisleni · Giovanni Battista Dziesleni · Džovanni Battista Džisleni
Giovanni Battista Gisleni
File:Santa maria del popolo, monum a giovanni battista gisleni, 01.JPG (Sailko) · Public domain
- Born
- 1600 · Rome.
- Died
- 1672 · Rome.
- Nationality
- Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Occupation
- architect · musician
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Illustration — Detail of Gisleni's tomb in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome. • Illustration — The Biaroza monastery – painting by Napoleon Orda Giovanni Battista Gisleni (1600 – 3 May 1672) was an Italian Baroque architect, stage designer, theater director, singer, and musician at the Polish-Lithuanian royal court. Gisleni was born and died in Rome. Gisleni's tomb in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome takes the form of a memento mori, showing an intricately carved skeleton figure of Death.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Giovanni Battista Gisleni. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q1334589 · wikipedia · Giovanni Battista Gisleni
In this article
Main works
Main works
• Biaroza monastery of the Carthusians in present-day Belarus (1648) • Church of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns in Lviv (1642) • Church of the Discalced Carmelites in Warsaw (1652) • project of an altar for the Miraculous Icon of Black Madonna of Częstochowa, Jasna Góra in Częstochowa (circa 1630) • Baroque Altar funded by bishop Piotr Gembicki in the Wawel Cathedral (circa 1650)
Identity
Identity
Giovanni Battista Gisleni is recorded as architect and musician. Church of St. Identity and origins. The authorities additionally record the headings Giambattista Gisleni, Giovanni Battista Ghisleni, Giovanni Battista Dziesleni, Džovanni Battista Džisleni and Jan Baptysta Ghisleni.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
Explore 1600–1672
The full dated record · 4 entries
1600
Giovanni Battista Gisleni born at Rome.
1625
Church of St. Michael, Vilnius is dated 1625.
1648
Biaroza Monastery is dated 1648.
1672
Giovanni Battista Gisleni died at Rome.
Publications
• Varii disegni d'architettura inventati e delineati da Gio:Battista Gisleni Romano architetto delle MMta et Sermo Prencipe di Polonia e Sueta Sir John Soane's Museum, London – 116 mostly unrealized projects • 12 drawings. Milan, Castello Sforzesco. • Architectural projects by Gisleni and other architects. Dresden, Kupferstichkab.; Skizzenbuch des G. Chiaveri.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.gem. Boźena Wierzbicka, Maria Łotyszowa (Red), Die Altstadt und das Königsschloß in Warschau (la ciudad antigua y el castillo real de Varsovia), Verlag Arkady, ISBN 83-213-3530-6, Warschau 1988, S. 37
- 2.Gianpasquale Greco, Neque hic vivus, neque illic mortuus. La tomba di Giovan Battista Gisleni e il suo doppio a stampa, rivista «Storia dell’arte», volume CXL, n.s. 40, 2015, pp. 83-96
- 3.gem. Jerzy Lileyko, Das Königsschloss in Warschau, Verlag Interpress, ISBN 83-223-1957-6, Warschau 1981, S. 38
- 4.gem. Julius A. Chroscicki und Andrzej Rottermund, Architekturatlas von Warschau, 1. Auflage, Arkady, Warschau 1978, S. 84
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Wikidata, structured authority record Q1334589: Giovanni Battista GisleniWikimedia Foundation
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 14 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Music memorabilia
42,934 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Giovanni Battista CostanziPerson
- Giovanni Battista DraghiPerson
- Giovanni Battista FasoloPerson
- Giovanni Battista FerrandiniPerson
- Giovanni Battista GranataPerson
- Giovanni Battista GrilloPerson
- Giovanni Battista LampugnaniPerson
- Giovanni Battista ManciniPerson
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Giovanni Battista Gisleni?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.