Ferdinando Galli da Bibiena

Ferdinando Maria Galli , known as Ferdinando Galli da Bibiena or Ferdinando Galli Bibiena or even simply Bibiena (Bologna, August 19th 1657 - January 4th 1743) was a painter, a Architecte of style Baroque, a theorist of art and a Scénographe Italy N of the prolific family of artists of the Bibiena.

Biography

Wire of Giovanni Maria Galli da Bibiena (1625-1665), it is formed in Bologna in Emilie-Romagna, by initially studying painting with the quadraturists Mauro Aldrovandini and Jacopo Mannini then the geometry and the prospect with Giulio Troili known as it Paradosso . It carries out in 1674 and 1675, under the control of Stefano Torelli, scenography for the theater of Fortune of Fano.

In 1676, it is active as decorator with his brother Francesco and works with Mirandola, Modena and Novellara, by carrying out a series of cycles of frescos (destroyed).

Between 1678 and 1684, it carries out decorations of the living room of dance of Fantuzzi Palate to Bologna, with painted on the walls, a loggiato open on a garden, a sight on three sides in normal prospect, and a fourth, in an oblique direction, as reconnectée on the room of the monumental living room of Paolo Canali, under development.

For several years, of 1685 until 1708, on recommendation of the painter Carlo Cignani, it is with the service of the duke Ranuccio Farnese with Parma, starting from 1687 as painter and 1697 like first architect ducal .

Between 1685-87 it carries out the frescos and perhaps even the architecture of Oratorio del Serraglio di San Secondo Parmense.

In 1686 he marries Corona Stradella, of a noble family of Borgotaro and they have seven children.

Between 1687 and 1690, decorations of Oratorio beyond Died to Piacenza.

Between 1687 and 1700, it builds the Buratti furnace bridge for Santa Maria degli Alamanni in Bologna and the theater for the rocca di Soragna.

In 1688, it takes share with work of embellishment and reorganization of the ducal theater Parmesan and that of the Pilotta.

In 1690, it restructures the college of noble in Parma and projects the frontage of palate Rangoni Farnese.

Between 1693 and 1697, it works in the Palais Costa with Plaisance.

Of 1699 with 1708, it directs work of modernization of the gardens of the Ducal Palais of Colorno, finished by Giuliano Mozani.

In 1709, it remains with Barcelona to direct the spectacles of the weddings of Charles III. (name of the monarch to be checked)

Returned in Parma in 1711, the following year, it projects the double vault of the chorus of the church of Sant' Antonio Abate, carries out the bored lower vault which makes it possible to see the decoration of the higher vault.

In 1717, it is with Vienna to carry out the preparations of the festivals given in the honor of the emperor Charles VI, and becomes first architect theatrical .

In 1717, because of a disease to the eyes, it returns to Bologna, where it carries out the projects for the specola of the Institute of Sciences, in 1720 those for the living rooms of the Palais Malvezzi, for the village hall to the Ranuzzi palate and for the apartment of the gonfalonier in the palate pubblico.

In 1726, it provides the projects for the bell-tower of Santa Cristina della Fondazza.

In 1719, it carries out, with his/her son Antonio (1700-1774), work of restoration of the theater of the Fortune of Fano, between 1719 and 1722, that of the church of San Giovanni Evangelista to Rimini, while working, always in this city, between 1723 and 1724, with the church of Teatini.

In 1727, it projects the furnace bridge of the church del Rosario has Cento, then in 1734, the cover of the parish church of the Villa Pasquali and the vault Santa Maria Assunta with Sabbioneta which consists of curvilinear grids through which one discovers the painted sky.

In 1739, it carries out the villa Paveri Fontana with Caramello.

One also allots modernization to him, in style baroque, of the castle of Lisignano and, according to certain sources, the project of parochial of Cadeo.

Works

Ferdinando Galli da Bibbiena is the author of three treaties of architecture and prospect whose will architettura It civil preparata sulla geometria E ridotta Al prospettive (civil architecture prepared by the geometry and reduced to the prospects) (1711, in which it theorizes the sight of angle, average employee for the first time at Bologna by Marcantonio Chiarini in 1694, which allows a vision of the diverted theatrical scene of the time baroque where the scene of the bottom, built according to a break point on a central axis allowing space continuity between the pretended scene and the real room, made the sight nonsatisfactory for esthetic requirements in these first years of the 18th century; this system made possible the creation of a decoration basic, on a perspective creepage distance, independent of the room, tilted towards it, according to a variable angle defined by diagonal lines, with in the center the vision of a building in corner from which the axes leave towards the two external side break points to the scene; in this manner, one succeeded in having a better visibility of each point of the room without having to build the simulation of an infinite space, beyond the bottom, become integral part of the theatrical scene.

Descent

Ferdinando and Corona Stradella had seven children of which:

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