Beduzzi, Antonio Maria Niccolò#

b. Bologna (Italy), 1675, d. Vienna, March 4, 1735, civil engineer (theatres), decorative painter, architect; after working in Melk (1703) "Castra doloris" for Emperors Leopold I (1705) and Joseph I (1711); 1708 successor to L. O. Burnacini as theatre architect at the Court in Vienna, constructed the Kaerntnertortheater (now Hotel Sacher) and by 1710 decorated four court opera houses; main work: frescoes in the large auditorium of the Lower Austrian Country House in Vienna (1710); after 1711 worked as a painter in Lower Austria (Melk, Maria Taferl), Upper Austria (Monastery in Lambach, Linz) and Salzburg (Maria Buehel near Salzburg).