Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti was an Italian painter of the late-
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
, active as a painter of perspective and theatrical decorations at
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, BulÄggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...
and
Genoa
Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, ZĂȘna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the List of cities in Italy, sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian ce ...
about 1690. He engraved a series of architectural subjects, and decorations for the theatre, after
Francesco Galli Bibiena
Francesco Galli, called Francesco da Bibiena (or da Bibbiena), a member of the theatrical Galli da Bibiena family and younger brother of Ferdinando Galli, was born at Bologna in 1659. He first studied under Lorenzo Pasinelli; but he was afterwar ...
, and others after
Marcantonio Chiarini.
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17th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Genoa
Painters from Bologna
Italian Baroque painters
Italian scenic designers
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
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