Carlo Vigarani ( – 17 February 1713)
[Sheren and La Gorce 2001.] was an Italian
scenic designer
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* Scenic design
* Scenic painting
* Scenic overlook
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Aviation
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who worked as ("royal engineer") and then ("
intendant
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to the King's pleasures") at the court of the French king
Louis XIV
, house = Bourbon
, father = Louis XIII
, mother = Anne of Austria
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
, death_date =
, death_place = Palace of Vers ...
until 1690. He was born in
Reggio di Lombardia
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and went to
Paris
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with his father in 1659.
[ He is best known for his design with his father and his brother Lodovico of the ]Salle des Machines
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*Salle des Concerts Herz, a former Paris concert hall
*Salle Favart, theatre of the Paris Opéra-Comique
*Salle Le Peletier, former home of the Paris Opéra
*Salle Pleyel, a Paris ...
at the Tuileries Palace
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in Paris
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.[ He returned to Paris in 1662, became a French citizen in 1673, and probably died in Paris.][
]
References
Bibliography
* Baricchi, Walter, editor; La Gorce, Jérôme de, editor (2009). ''Gaspare & Carlo Vigarani: Dalla corte degli Este a quella di Luigi XIV'', papers from a 2005 symposium held in Reggio Emilia, Modena, Sassuolo, and Versailles, in Italian, French, or English. Milan: Silvana Editoriale. .
* La Gorce, Jérôme de (2005). ''Carlo Vigarani, intendant des plaisirs de Louis XIV''. Paris: Perrin. .
* Sheren, Paul; La Gorce, Jérôme de (2001)
"Vigarani, Carlo"
in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
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'', second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie
Stanley John Sadie (; 30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist, music critic, and editor. He was editor of the sixth edition of the '' Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' (1980), which was publ ...
. London: Macmillan. (hardcover). (eBook).
* Tollini, Frederick Paul (2003). ''Scene Design at the Court of Louis XIV: The Work of the Vigarani Family and Jean Berain''. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press. .
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1637 births
1713 deaths
Italian scenic designers
Italian emigrants to France
Artists from Modena
French scenic designers