Domenico Quaglio the Younger (January 1, 1787 – April 9, 1837) was a German painter, engraver,

stage designer Scenic design (also known as scenography, stage design, or set design) is the creation of theatrical, as well as film or television scenery. Scenic designers come from a variety of artistic backgrounds, but in recent years, are mostly trained ...

, and architect. He was the second son of

Giuseppe Quaglio Giuseppe Quaglio (2 December 1747 – 23 January 1828) was an Italian painter and stage designer, active in scene painting in Mannheim, Frankfurt, and Ludwigsburg. Vinicius de Castro Quaglio (April 27, 1989) family ties in Brazil Born in t ...

and part of the large

Quaglio The surname Quaglio belongs to a large family of artists, both painters, architects, and scenographers ( stage designers), originally from Laino, between Lake Como and Lake Lugano. They were active mainly from the 17th to 20th century, both in Ital ...

pedigree of Italian artists involved in architecture, indoor fresco decoration, and scenography for the court theaters. He was known as a

landscape A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the ...

and

architectural painter Architectural painting (also Architecture painting) is a form of genre painting where the predominant focus lies on architecture, including both outdoor and interior views. While architecture was present in many of the earliest paintings and illum ...

/decorator, including

quadratura Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective ''di sotto in sù'' and ''quadratura'', is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which ''trompe-l'œil'', perspective tools such as foreshortening, an ...

. He was born in Munich. He was taught perspective and scene-painting by his father, and

engraving Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a Burin (engraving), burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or Glass engraving, glass ...

by Mettenleiter and

Karl Hess Karl Hess (born Carl Hess III; May 25, 1923 – April 22, 1994) was an American speechwriter and author. He was also a political philosopher, editor, welder, motorcycle racer, tax resister, and libertarian activist. His career included stints on ...

. In 1819 he resigned his post as scene-painter, and occupied himself only with architecture, for which he obtained subjects in the Netherlands, Italy, France, and England. As architect in charge, Domenico Quaglio was responsible for the neogothic style of the exterior design of Hohenschwangau Castle, summer and hunting residence of King

Maximilian II of Bavaria Maximilian II (28 November 1811 – 10 March 1864) reigned as King of Bavaria between 1848 and 1864. Unlike his father, King Ludwig I, "King Max" was very popular and took a greater interest in the business of Government than in personal extra ...

, son of King

Ludwig I of Bavaria en, Louis Charles Augustus , image = Joseph Karl Stieler - King Ludwig I in his Coronation Robes - WGA21796.jpg , caption = Portrait by Joseph Stieler, 1825 , succession=King of Bavaria , reign = , coronation ...

and father of King Ludwig II. Quaglio died at

Hohenschwangau Hohenschwangau is a former village and now an urban district of the municipality of Schwangau, Ostallgäu district, Bavaria, Germany. It is located between Schloss Neuschwanstein and Schloss Hohenschwangau and is visited by about 2 million peop ...

in 1837. He engraved twelve plates of'Architectural Monuments’‘, and lithographed thirty ''Remarkable German Buildings of the Middle Ages''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Quaglio the Younger, Domenico 1787 births 1837 deaths Architects from Munich Architects of the Bavarian court 19th-century German painters German male painters 19th-century German architects German scenic designers 19th-century German male artists