Michał Elwiro Andriolli

Michał Elwiro Andriolli (November 2nd or November 14th 1836, Wilno - August 23rd 1893, Nałęczów) is a painter, Dessinateur and Illustrateur Polish.

He is the son of a Italian Sculpteur which was captain in the armies Napoleon iennes arrived in Poland. He there married and fixed himself at Wilno.

Michał Elwiro studies initially at the school of painting and of sculpture of Moscow, then it continues its formation with the imperial academy of the fine arts of Saint-Pétersbourg (1855 - 1858). In 1861, it leaves for Rome where it studies with the academy Saint Luc. The Italy, so different from the Lithuania and the Russia, has a great influence on him. Of return in its native land, it takes part in the Insurrection of January what is worth to him to be stopped by the authorities Tsar ists in 1864. He manages to escape from his prison and to join London, then Paris. In 1866, returned to the country as an emissary of the Committee of the Polish emigration, it again is stopped and sent in exile to Wiatka where it will learn how to use his artistic talents. It there will decorate an orthodoxe church Russian, will carry out portraits and landscapes.

Pardoned by the tsar in 1871, it settles with Warsaw where it works as illustrator for several newspapers. It becomes famous by illustrating the luxurious editions of some chiefs of work of the Polish literature of which Pan Tadeusz and Konrad Wallenrod of Adam Mickiewicz (1879 - 1882). Of 1883 with 1886, it lives with Paris where it illustrates Romeo and Juliette of Shakespeare as well as novels of James Fenimore Cooper.

It painted many paintings, in particular for the decoration of the church of Kowno (Kaunas).

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Stara Baśń illustrated by Michał Elwiro Andriolli * Side Tadeusz illustrated by Michał Elwiro Andriolli * What is this it is Świdermajer?

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