Donato Giuseppe Frisoni
Donato Giuseppe Frisoni (b. 1681 or 1683, Laino – d. 29 November 1735, Ludwigsburg) was an Italian architect active during the Rococo period in Northern Italy, Southern Germany, and Bohemia.
Donato Giuseppe Frisoni
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- Name
- Donato Giuseppe Frisoni
- Born
- 1681 or 1683
- Birthplace
- Laino, Duchy of Milan
- Died
- November 29, 1735 (aged 54, 53, or 52)
- Place of death
- Ludwigsburg, Duchy of Württemberg
- Occupation
- Architect
- Known for
- Ludwigsburg Palace, Schloss Favorite (Ludwigsburg)
- Nationality
- Italy
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Donato Giuseppe Frisoni (b. 1681 or 1683, Laino – d. 29 November 1735, Ludwigsburg) was an Italian architect active during the Rococo period in Northern Italy, Southern Germany, and Bohemia.
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• Name — Donato Giuseppe Frisoni • Born — 1681 or 1683 • Birthplace — Laino, Duchy of Milan • Died — November 29, 1735 (aged 54, 53, or 52) • Place of death — Ludwigsburg, Duchy of Württemberg • Occupation — Architect • Known for — Ludwigsburg Palace, Schloss Favorite (Ludwigsburg)
Biography
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Donato Giuseppe Frisoni was born in Laino, a village in the Val d'Intelvi, in what was then the Duchy of Milan. Frisoni traveled to and worked in Vienna under Santino Bussi, who had been at work in the Austrian capital since 1695. After 1700, Frisoni traveled to Prague to work with his brother-in-law Tomasso Soldati under Giovanni Battista Alliprandi. In 1708, Frisoni and Soldatti were recruited by Johann Friedrich Nette, court architect in the Duchy of Württemberg, to work as a stuccoist at Ludwigsburg Palace. Frisoni and Soldati began working at Ludwigsburg with in the interiors of its Old Main Building in 1709. Over the winter of 1709, Frisoni returned to Laino and married Anna Maria Allio. Their marriage would produce two children.
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Donato Giuseppe Frisoni · This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy
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Donato Giuseppe Frisoni · This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy
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- 1.Architectural and Ornament Drawings: Juvarra, Vanvitelli, the Bibiena Family, by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Mary L. Myers, page 24-25.
- 2.Klaus Graf: Gefangene auf Hohenurach. In: Archivalia vom 27. Juni 2013 https://archiv.twoday.net/stories/434212363/
- 3.Donato Giuseppe Frisoni auf archive.org/stream (abgerufen am 12. Dezember 2016).
- 4."Le Muse", De Agostini, Novara, 1965, vol. 5, p. 123
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