Francesco Galli Bibiena
Francesco Galli da Bibbiena ( born December 12, 1659 Bologna, † January 20, 1739 ) was an Italian stage designer, architect, stage designer and decorative painter from the famous family of artists Galli da Bibbiena. He designed and painted backdrops and decorations for the theater of the most important cities in Italy and was an architect of several major European theaters.
Family
Francesco was the second son of the painter Giovanni Maria Galli da Bibbiena Bologna to the world. His older brother was Ferdinando Galli da Bibbiena, with whom he worked closely during his life several times.
From his marriage sprang two children:
- Giovanni Carlo ( born April 26, 1710 † 1760), like his father, painter and architect
- A daughter (* August 23, 1711, † April 5, 1712 )
Life and work
After Francesco had first started an apprenticeship as a merchant, he was trained from about 1673 when Lorenzo Pasinelli and then with Carlo Cignani as a figure painter. However, afterwards he turned to architecture and decorative painting.
1682 he went to Piacenza to make there for the Duke Ranuccio II Farnese some rooms of the Ducal Palace. Finally, the artist worked in Parma. After three years working as a theatrical scene painter in Rome, he was engaged by the Duke of Mantua, Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga - Nevers. For him, Francesco built in 1700, designed by Giulio Romano the courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua to an indoor riding arena to.
About Genoa, the path then took him to Naples. There he worked in 1702 for the Viceroy Francisco Pacheco de Acuña to conduct the celebrations of the reception of the Spanish King Philip V. This made him the offer to act for him in Spain, but Francesco beat the offer made to work from about 1704 to Emperor Leopold I in Vienna. There he built a large court theater. Due to excessive wage demands Bibiena dismissed him the emperor of his service, and Francesco went shortly after Leopold's death in 1705 returned to Italy.
In 1707 he went to Nancy to the court of the Duke of Lorraine, to build a large theater for him in the capital of the Duchy. During this time, Lorraine married Francesco. 1710 brought him Joseph I in Vienna at the Imperial Court back to deal with him as the "First Theatral engineer ". During this time, he painted numerous decorations for operas, among other things, for Tigrane, Mucius Scaevola and Contis victory of friendship over love. No later than 1712, however, he had to leave Vienna again and returned to Italy, because this year had his older brother Ferdinando under the new Emperor Charles VI. Francesco's taken place.
The Marchese Scipione Maffei commissioned him in 1715 so, the theater of Verona Accademia de ' Filarmonici - named Teatro Filarmonico - to build, was distinguished by a particularly good acoustics. 1720 was followed by Francesco a call to Rome, where he built the Teatro Alibert to 1722.
In 1726 he was again in Bologna, where he acted as head of the Accademia Clementina since that year. There he taught geometry, perspective, mathematics and surveying. Francesco Galli da Bibbiena died in 1739 in this city and is buried in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore. Receive is from him a work entitled L' Architettura maestra delle arti, che la compongone, which was never published.