!!!Galli-Bibiena, Ferdinando

b. Bologna (Italy), Aug. 18, 1656, 
d. Bologna (Italy), Jan. 3, 1743, master-builder, painter, 
brother of Francesco Francesco  Galli-Bibiena and father of Antonio  
Galli-Bibiena and Giuseppe  Galli-Bibiena. After he had worked as a 
court artist for the Farnese dynasty in Parma and Piacenza for 30 
years, Karl VI called him first to Barcelona in 1708, where he worked 
as an architect and set designer, and later to Vienna. In his 
decorations for the theatre and for festivities he replaced the 
central axis with a diagonal axis and introduced an angular 
perspective. Was defeated by J. B.  Fischer von Erlach when 
competing for the construction of St. Charles´ church in Vienna. 
He returned to Bologna in 1716.



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