Alessandro Galli Bibiena (15 October 1686 Parma5 May 1748
Mannheim), Italian architect and painter, was the eldest son of
Ferdinando and was born at
Parma.
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena (5 January 1696 Parma12 March 1757
Berlin), the second son of
Ferdinando, born on 5 January 1696 at
Parma, became the most distinguished artist of the Galli–Bibiena family. From 1723 to 1747, he worked as "His Majesty's First Theatrical Engineer" for
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, where he decorated all of the
Habsburg celebratory festivities. Together with his younger brother Antonio, he designed theater decorations and for festivities in Vienna, also
Linz,
Graz, and
Prague (1723 "Costanza e Fortezza" at
Hradčany castle). In 1753, he moved to Berlin in the court of
Frederick the Great of Prussia, where he died three years later.
Antonio Galli Bibiena (1 January 1700 Parma28 January 1774
Milan), Italian architect, born in
Parma, third son of
Ferdinando, had been a pupil of
Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole and later of
Marcantonio Franceschini. Antonio became the architect of the
Teatro Scientifico of the
National Virgilian Academy at
Mantua (
Italy), and architect of the
Teatro Comunale di Bologna. He was also employed at the Hofburg court of
Vienna. Antonio died in Mantua in 1774, at age 74.
Giovanni Carlo Galli-Bibiena (11 August 1717 Bologna20 November 1760 Ajuda, Lisbon), architect/designer, the son of Francesco, designed the staircase of
Palazzo Savini and a chapel, the
Cappella di San Antonio in
San Bartolommeo di Porta Ravegnana in Bologna, and the decorative scheme for the high altar of the
San Petronio Basilica, Bologna, for the Bolognese
Pope Benedict XIV. From 1752-55, he designed and built the
Ópera do Tejo in Lisbon, but the opera house was destroyed seven months after completion by the
1755 earthquake. He died five years later. == Greatgrandsons ==