Pietro Perti
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Giovanni Pietro Perti or Peretti (b. 1648 in Muggio, Switzerland - d. 1714 in Vilnius, Lithuania) was an Italian Baroque sculptor and architect. He has been an elder of Šnipiškės and Antakalnis suburbs governed by Sapiehas[1].
Living in Canton Ticino, Perti, as a sculptor of comasco school, was influenced by an Italian master Gian Lorenzo Bernini[2]. Educated in Florence and invited to Vilnius by Michał Kazimierz Pac, Perti has spent most of his life in the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania working for magnate families. He has served in the manor of the Grand Hetman of Lithuania Jan Kazimierz Sapieha the Younger from 1689 until 1701 after becoming famous for the stuccowork decorations of St. Peter and St. Paul's Church (1677-1682), considered the Lithuanian Baroque masterpiece, together with Giovanni Maria Galli.
During his career Perti has designed, constructed and decorated some of most prominent Lithuanian Baroque monuments in Vilnius: Slushko Palace (1690), Sapieha Palace (1691) and the Church of The Lord Christ with the Trinitarian monastery (started in 1691, decorated 1700-1705[3]), all situated in Antakalnis; he reconstructed the interior and designed the altar of the Chapel of St. Casimir in Vilnius Cathedral (1686-1688). Perti has also participated in the decoration of the Pažaislis monastery ensemble in Kaunas, together with Michelangelo Palloni and Joan Merli.
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- (Lithuanian) Drėma, V. (1991). "Dingęs Vilnius". Vilnius: Vaga. ISBN 5-415-00366-5.
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