Giovanni Pietro Perti or Peretti (1648 – 1714) was an Italian Baroque sculptor and architect, regarded as one of the leading European sculptors on the verge of the 18th century. He has been an elder of

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and

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suburbs governed by

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s. Living in

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, Perti, as a sculptor of ''comasco school'', was influenced by an Italian master Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Educated in

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and invited to Vilnius by

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, Perti has spent most of his life in the capital of the

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working for magnate families. He became famous for the stucco decorations of St. Peter and St. Paul's Church (1677–82), considered the Lithuanian Baroque masterpiece. He worked together with Giovanni Maria Galli who added the ornamentations around sculptures by Perti. Perti served in the manor of the

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from 1689 until 1701 During his career Perti has designed, constructed and decorated some of most prominent Lithuanian Baroque monuments in Vilnius:

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(1690), Sapieha Palace (1691) and the Church of The Saviour with the

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monastery (started in 1691, decorated 17–1705),Vilniaus (Antakalnio) buvęs trinitorių vienuolynas ir Viešpaties Jėzaus bažnyčia
/ref> all situated in Antakalnis; he reconstructed the interior and designed the stucco of the altar of the Chapel of St. Casimir in

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(1686–88). Perti has also participated in the decoration of the

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ensemble in Kaunas, together with Joan Merli and

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whose daughter Maria Magdalena he was married to.

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# {{DEFAULTSORT:Perti, Pietro 1648 births 1714 deaths Italian Baroque sculptors Lithuanian sculptors Italian male sculptors 17th-century Italian sculptors 18th-century Italian sculptors Italian Baroque architects 18th-century Italian male artists