Domenico Tibaldi (1541-1583) was an Italian painter and architect, active mainly in

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, in a

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style. Domenico initially trained with his father, the famed

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painter and architect

Pellegrino Tibaldi Pellegrino Tibaldi (Valsolda, 1527–Milan, 1596), also known as Pellegrino di Tibaldo de Pellegrini, was an Italian mannerism, mannerist architect, sculpture, sculptor, and mural Painting, painter. Biography Tibaldi was born in Puria di Valsol ...

. He helped construct a chapel in the

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. He helped design the Palazzo Magnani in central Bologna. He died young and was buried in the church of the Nunziata in Bologna.

Sources

''The lives of celebrated architects, ancient and modern''
Volume 2, By Francesco Milizia; J. Moyes, editor, London; Page 64. {{Authority control 1541 births 1583 deaths 16th-century Italian architects Renaissance architects Architects from Bologna