Ferdinando galli bibiena biography

  • Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena (18 August – 3 January ), surname also spelled Galli da Bibiena or Bibbiena, was an Italian Baroque-era architect.
  • Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, surname also spelled Galli da Bibiena or Bibbiena, was an Italian Baroque-era architect, designer, and painter.
  • Ferdinando Galli Bibiena (–), born at Bologna, was the son of Giovanni Maria.

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    Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena

    Italian painter (–)

    Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena (18 August – 3 January ),[1][2] surname also spelled Galli da Bibiena or Bibbiena, was an Italian Baroque-era architect, designer, and painter.[2][3]

    Biography

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    Bibiena was born on 18 August at Bologna.[1] He was the son of painterGiovanni Maria Galli (–), and he studied painting under Carlo Cignani and architecture under Giulio Trogli, called il Paradosso.[3] On the recommendation of Cignani, Bibiena entered into the service of the duke of Parma and also worked for the Farnese dynasty at Piacenza over a period of 30 years. His main work during this time was the garden and villa of Colorno, but he also earned a reputation for his scenic designs and began working for the theatre.[3]

    In , Bibiena was called to Barcelona to organize the decorations in connection with the wedding festivities of the future Holy Roman emperor C

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    Galli da Bibiena family

    The Galli–Bibiena family, or Galli da Bibiena (also spelled "Bibbiena"), was a family of Italian artists of the 17th and 18th centuries, including:[1][2][3][4][5]

    • father, Giovanni Maria Galli da Bibiena (–)
    • daughter Maria Oriana Galli Bibiena (–), Italian painter
    • son Ferdinando Galli Bibiena (–), Italian architect/designer
    • son Francesco Galli Bibiena (–), Italian architect
    • grandson, Alessandro Galli Bibiena (–), architect/painter
    • grandson, Giuseppe Galli Bibiena (–), Italian designer
    • grandson, Antonio Galli Bibiena (–), Italian architect
    • grandson, Giovanni Carlo Galli-Bibiena (–), architect/designer[5]
    • greatgrandson, Carlo Galli Bibiena (–), designer, son of Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

    The Galli–Bibiena family derives its name from the surname and birthplace of papa Giovanni Maria Galli ( - 21 June ),[5] who was born at Bibbiena (Italy) outside Florence.&#

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    In a new treatise on architecture and geometry was published in Parma. Its author, Ferdinando Galli Bibbiena (or Galli da Bibbiena, or Bibiena), was one the most famous scenographers of his time in Europe; just three years earlier, in , he had been appointed as supervisor to the wedding festivities of King Charles III, whom this new treatise was dedicated to.

    The son of a painter, Bibbiena studied painting, perspective and architecture, yet he soon earned a reputation for his scenic designs and began working for the theatre, a confluence of the three disciplines he was most learned in.

    Bibbiena’s Architettura civile is divided into five sections: the first on geometry, the second on architecture, the third on perspective, the fourth on scenography, and the fifth on mechanics. Despite its title, the book is clearly more focused on illusionistic painting and scenic design rather than on architecture. Although very similar to Andrea Pozzo’s Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum

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