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Galli da Bibiena

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Galli da Bibiena: see Bibiena, Galli da Bibiena or Bibbiena, Galli da , family of Italian artists of the 17th and 18th cent.

Giovanni Maria Galli da Bibiena,
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There have been various modifications to the basic horseshoe geometry; the truncated ellipse and the hull-shaped plan developed by the Galli da Bibienas, of which the most outstanding example is the Markgrafliches Opernhaus in Bayreuth (p62).
Giuseppe and Carlo Galli da Bibiena went on to design the first opera house at Bayreuth in 1748, the extraordinary Rococo Residenztheater, rivalled only by the even more extravagent Munich Residenztheater (I 752) by Jean Frangois de Cuvillits, which was bombed during the Second World War but subsequently rebuilt.
 
 
 
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