Design for Stage Set: Centralized Villa with Cupola ("Villa rotunda" Style) and Colonnaded Wings.
1696–1756
Medium
Pen, brown and gray ink over black chalk
Dimensions
16-1/2 x 22-3/8 in. (41.9 x 56.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, by exchange, 1972
Accession Number
1972.713.62
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena · 1696–1757
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena was born on January 5, 1696, in Parma, into what would become the most celebrated dynasty of theatrical designers in Baroque Europe. He was the second son of Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, who was himself a transformative figure in stage design and the originator of the family's defining innovation: the scena per angolo, or "scene viewed at an angle." This technique replaced the ...