Michelangelo Palloni

Michelangelo Palloni (1637[1]—1712) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, who worked in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1674 onward.

Palloni studied art in Florence and was a pupil of Baldassare Franceschini (Il Volterrano).

[3] From 1685 Palloni worked in the Krasiński Palace in Warsaw, and in 1688 he was appointed court painter to the King John III Sobieski.

He also painted frescoes in the chapel of the missionary seminary in Łowicz around 1695 and in the parish church in Węgrów in 1710, which is likely to be his final work.

[3] The works are characteristic of the Baroque style: complex poses of figures, various angles, expressive, emotional gestures, and virtuoso rendering of draperies; he used illusionistic painting techniques and architectural backgrounds.