Michał Elwiro Andriolli
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| Born | 2 November 1836 Vilnius |
| Died | 23 August 1893 Nałęczów |
| Known for | painting, drawing |
| Movement | history painting |
Michał Elwiro Andriolli, Lithuanian: Mykolas Elvyras Andriolis, Italian: Elviro Michele Andriolli (2 November 1836, in Vilnius – 23 August 1893, in Nałęczów) was a Polish - Lithuanian painter and architect of Italian descent. He is notable for his illustrations to Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz, as well as a distinctive style of villas built outside Warsaw.
Andriolli was born on 2 November 1836 in Vilna (modern Vilnius) as a son of Francesco Andriolli to a family of an Italian emigrant, a veteran of the Napoleon Bonaparte's Grande Armée. In 1855, he went to Moscow, where he started his studies at the School of Painting and Sculpture. In 1858 he graduated from the Imperial Academy of Art in Petersburg. Andriolli received a scholarship and in 1861 he went to Rome, where he continued his studies at the Accademia di San Luca. He returned to Lithuania and took part in the January Uprising against Russian Empire. Arrested by the tsarist authorities, he managed to escape from Kaunas Prison and reach London and then Paris.
An emissary of the Committee of Polish Emigration, he returned to Russian-held Poland, but was again arrested in 1866. Tried for his part in the Uprising, he was sentenced to katorga in Vyatka. Pardoned in 1871, Andriolli moved to Poland and settled in Warsaw. There he started his career as an illustrator for various newspapers, notably the Tygodnik Ilustrowany, Kłosy and Biesiada Literacka. His work for various Warsaw-based newspapers made him one of the most renown illustration makers of the time and Andriolli was hired to illustrate some of the classic works of the Polish literature, notably the works by Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki and Józef Ignacy Kraszewski. His pictures for the first editions of Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz and Konrad Wallenrod, prepared between 1879 and 1882, are regarded as icons of Polish literature even now.
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