Bernardino Galliari

Bernardino Galliari (born November 3, 1707 in Andorno Micca , Piedmont ; † March 31, 1794 ibid) was an Italian fresco artist and theater painter .

Plate in Andorno Micca (BI)

Galliari is considered to be one of the founders of Piedmontese theater painting. Above all, he mastered illusionistic perspective painting . In his early days he worked mainly in Bergamo and Milan , where in 1742 he made theater equipment for La Scala in Milan . In 1772 Frederick the Great brought him to the Royal Opera in Berlin . In his later phase, Galliari mainly created altar paintings such as the Conversion of Paul in the Church of Sant'Agostino in Milan.

literature

Wolf Stadler u. a .: Lexicon of Art 5th Gal - Mr. Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1994, ISBN 3-86070-452-4 , pp. 7-8.

personal data
SURNAME	Galliari, Bernardino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian fresco and theater painter
DATE OF BIRTH	November 3, 1707
PLACE OF BIRTH	Andorno
DATE OF DEATH	March 31, 1794
Place of death	Andorno