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Simon Quaglio BIOGRAPHY
1795 Monaco - 1878. Known for: Painting, theater painter.
Simon Quaglio was a German theatre, architecture, veduta and interior painter from a great dynasty of artists of Italian descent. Trained within the family, Quaglio embarked on a career as a theatre... Read full biography
Simon Quaglio was a German theatre, architecture, veduta and interior painter from a great dynasty of artists of Italian descent. Trained within the family, Quaglio embarked on a career as a theatre painter and took over the position of court theatre painter in Munich from relatives in 1815,... Read full biography
Simon Quaglio was a German theatre, architecture, veduta and interior painter from a great dynasty of artists of Italian descent. Trained within the family, Quaglio embarked on a career as a theatre painter and took over the position of court theatre painter in Munich from relatives in 1815, becoming director of decoration in 1828. Quaglio was one of the leading, innovative and one of the most prolific theatre decorators of his time, his designs were also adopted in other cities. In addition,... Read full biography
Simon Quaglio was a German theatre, architecture, veduta and interior painter from a great dynasty of artists of Italian descent. Trained within the family, Quaglio embarked on a career as a theatre painter and took over the position of court theatre painter in Munich from relatives in 1815, becoming director of decoration in 1828. Quaglio was one of the leading, innovative and one of the most prolific theatre decorators of his time, his designs were also adopted in other cities. In addition, he created very finely and colouristically atmospheric painted late romantic views, especially of churches.
Simon Quaglio was a German theatre, architecture, veduta and interior painter from a great dynasty of artists of Italian descent. Trained within the family, Quaglio embarked on a career as a theatre painter and took over the position of court theatre painter in Munich from relatives in 1815, becoming director of decoration in 1828. Quaglio was one of the leading, innovative and one of the most prolific theatre decorators of his time, his designs were also adopted in other cities. In addition, he created very finely and colouristically atmospheric painted late romantic views, especially of churches.
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Simon Quaglio was a German theatre, architecture, veduta and interior painter from a great dynasty of artists of Italian descent. Trained within the family, Quaglio embarked on a career as a theatre painter and took over the position of court theatre painter in Munich from relatives in 1815, becoming director of decoration in 1828.
Quaglio was one of the leading, innovative and one of the most prolific theatre decorators of his time, his designs were also adopted in other cities. In addition, he created very finely and colouristically atmospheric painted late romantic views, especially of churches.