Costante Tencalla

Costante Tencalla (1593, Bissone[1] - 1646, Warsaw[2]) was a Swiss-Italian architect and sculptor.

[3] He trained in Rome[4][5] and spent his early working life there before going to Poland with his uncle Matteo Castelli, who became Poland's first royal architect.

[6] On Castelli's death he moved back to Italy to work on buildings in Bissone and Lugano.

[7] He then returned to Warsaw as architect to Władysław IV Vasa,[8] who commissioned important buildings from him in Warsaw, Kraków, Leopoli, Gniezno, and Vilnius (Grand Duchy of Lithuania).

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