Giuseppe Quaglio (2 December 1747 – 23 January 1828) was an Italian painter and stage designer, active in scene painting in Mannheim, Frankfurt, and Ludwigsburg.
Born in the town of Laino, between Lake Como and Lake Lugano, Giuseppe is part of the Quaglio family of scene painters, architects, and artists. Giuseppe's sons include the scene designer Simon (1795–1878), active mainly in Munich, Angelo Quaglio the Elder (1784—1815), an architect and painter. He designed and painted landscapes and architectural pictures for Boisserée's work on Cologne Cathedral, Domenico (1787–1837), a landscape and architectural painter, scene painter, engraver, and architect, was born in Munich and died at Hohenschwangau; and Lorenzo (1793–1869), a genre painter and lithographer.
References
- Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 331.
- James Anderson, The Complete Dictionary of Opera and Operetta.
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