(b Urzed?w, c. 1530; d Lowicz, c. 1583). Polish sculptor and master builder. He trained in Krak?w, perhaps at the workshop of Giovanni Maria Mosca Padovano. He directed a building and sculpture workshop in Krak?w; although he did not officially become a master in the Krak?w guild until 1570, he had been working independently since at the latest 1557, when he executed the tomb of Bishop Benedykt Izdbienski (Poznan Cathedral). Michalowicz built two domed chapels in Krak?w Cathedral containing the funerary monuments of the Krak?w bishops Andrzej Zebrzydowski (1562-3) and Filip Padniewski (1572-5), and he built a similar chapel and monument in the Lowicz Collegiate Church for the Primate of Poland Jakub Uchanski (1580-83; epitaph dismantled late 18th century; reassembled in Arkadia, nr Lowicz). He also signed the tomb of Urszula Lezenska (c. 1565) in the parish church of Brzeziny. The artist's characteristic style permits the attribution to him of several unsigned tombs, including those of the brothers Mikolaj and Stanislaw Wolski (1568; Warsaw Cathedral); Stanislaw Tarnowski (1569; Chroberz); and Jan Lezenski (1573; Chelmno). He also executed carved portals for houses at 18 Kanoniczna Street and 3 Florianska Street, Krak?w.
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