Michał Elwiro Andriolli was a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 painter and architect. He is notable for his illustrations to Mickiewicz

Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Bernard Mickiewicz ) was a Polish poet, publisher and political writer of the Romantic period. One of the primary representatives of the Polish Romanticism era, a national poet of Poland, he is seen as one of Poland's Three Bards and the greatest poet in all of Polish literature...

's Pan Tadeusz

Pan Tadeusz

Pan Tadeusz, the full title in English: Sir Thaddeus, or the Last Lithuanian Foray: A Nobleman's Tale from the Years of 1811 and 1812 in Twelve Books of Verse is an epic poem by the Polish poet, writer and philosopher Adam Mickiewicz...

, as well as a distinctive style of villas built outside Warsaw.

Andriolli was born November 2 of 1836 in Vilna

Vilnius

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 (modern Vilnius), 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.