Francesco Galli Bibiena is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Francesco Galli Bibiena as Italian scenographer and architect (1659–1739).
Francesco Galli Bibiena was born at Bologna in 1659. His recorded nationality is Italy.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as scenographer, architect and theatre designer.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Italy shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Francesco Galli Bibiena died in 1739, aged 80. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
