Half Elevation and Half Ground Plan for Catafalque for Antonio Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1731)
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena
ca. 1731
Medium
Pen, brown ink and brown and gray washes
Dimensions
20-1/16 x 13-5/8 in. (51.0 x 34.6 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
1972.713.9
Tags
Architecture
About the Artist
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena
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 ...