Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena

Ferdinando Galli da Bibbiena ( born August 8, 1656 in Bologna, † January 3, 1743 ) was an Italian stage designer, architect and decorator.

He was the son of the painter and architect Giovanni Maria Galli da Bibbiena, who was named after his birthplace Bibbiena in Tuscany. He studied under Carlo Cignani and acquired great reputation as a theater architect and decorator. For the construction of the coronation of Charles VI. listed theater he was called to Prague, then came to the court of Charles VI. to Vienna and worked most recently in Bologna, where he died in 1743. Its Baroque style following buildings show a significant imagination and great sense of pictorial effect; his architectural paintings are characterized by skilful treatment and admirable perspective. His music appeared engraved under the title. Varie Opere di prospettiva to Augsburg in 1840 He also wrote Architettura Civile (Parma 1811).

His three sons brought the art of the Father through the whole of Italy and Germany in recording. Antonio Galli da Bibbiena, born 1700 in Parma, also worked at the court of Charles VI, then returned to Italy, where he built the theater of Siena, Pistoia and La Pergola Florence and decorated. ; died in 1774 in Milan. Giuseppe Galli da Bibbiena, born in 1696, worked in Vienna, Dresden and Berlin, mainly in theaters and court festivities, died in 1757 in Berlin. Alessandro Galli da Bibbiena was as Planning Director in the service of the Elector of the Palatinate, on whose behalf he ran the Jesuit church at Mannheim in the Rococo style.