Maria Oriana Galli Bibiena
Maria Oriana Galli Bibiena | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1656 |
| Died | 3 January 1749 (aged 92–93) Bologna |
| Burial place | Santa Maria dei Servi, Bologna |
| Spouse | Gioacchino Pizzoli |
| Father | Giovanni Maria Galli da Bibiena |
| Relatives | Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena (brother) Francesco Galli Bibiena (brother) |
| Family | Galli da Bibiena family |
Maria Oriana Galli Bibiena (1656 – 3 January 1749) was an Italian painter and member of the Galli da Bibbiena family of artists of Tuscan origin. She specialized in mannerist portrait and history paintings.
Biography
Bibiena was born in 1656 into the Galli da Bibbiena family of artists of Tuscan origin. Her father was Giovanni Maria Galli da Bibiena (1625–1665)[1][2] and her brothers were Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena (1657–1743) and Francesco Galli Bibiena (1659–1739).[3][4] The first biographical information on Bibiena dates to Antonio Masini's biographies.[5]
Bibiena studied under her father,[3] Marcantonio Franceschini and Carlo Cignani;[6] she may also have been an apprentice of Elisabetta Sirani.[7][8][9] She specialized in mannerist portraits and history paintings.[3][10] Among Bibiena's commissions was the altarpiece painting of "The Trinity in Glory with Saints" for the Church of the Madonna del Sasso in Fossombrone, painted c.1680.[6][11]
Bibiena married the painter Gioacchino Pizzoli (1661–1773). Their son Domenico Pizzoli (1687–1720) also became a painter and a daughter joined a monastery in Reggio-Emilia.[12] After the death of her husband, Bibiena went to live with her brother Ferdinando, who was by then a widower.[11]
Bibiena died in 1749 in Bologna,[11] aged 93.[4] She was buried at the Santa Maria dei Servi, Bologna.
References
- ^ Betham, Mary Matilda (1804). "Galli, (Maria Oriana)". A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country. London: Betham and Ward. p. 366. Retrieved 8 December 2025.
- ^ "Bibiena, Maria Oriana", Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Oxford University Press, 31 October 2011, doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00019352, retrieved 8 December 2025
- ^ a b c Chiarenza, Stefano (1 December 2016). "Architecture and Perspective in the Set Drawings of the Galli Bibiena". Nexus Network Journal. 18 (3): 723–742. doi:10.1007/s00004-016-0304-x. ISSN 1522-4600.
- ^ a b Bossi, Tonini (2009). "Maria Oriana Galli Bibiena, pittora (1656-1749)". Nuovi studi fanesi (in Italian). 23. Biblioteca Comunale Federiciana Fano: 127, 129. Retrieved 7 December 2025.
- ^ Bohn, Babette (1 October 2025). Reframing Seventeenth-Century Bolognese Art: Archival Discoveries. Taylor & Francis. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-040-79180-6.
- ^ a b Rocco, Patricia (29 November 2017). The Devout Hand: Women, Virtue, and Visual Culture in Early Modern Italy. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. p. 204. ISBN 978-0-7735-5219-7.
- ^ Pandimiglio, Francesca (2002). "La Figura Della Donnaartista Dall'antichità Al XXI Secolo". In Mondini, Umberto (ed.). Women Who Made History (in Italian). Edizioni Progetto cultura. p. 404. ISBN 9788833561660.
- ^ Campbell, Erin J.; Miller, Stephanie R.; Consavari, Elizabeth Carroll (23 March 2016). The Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior, 1400–1700: Objects, Spaces, Domesticities. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-03489-6.
- ^ Graziani, Irene (2004), Il cenacolo di Elisabetta Sirani, ITA, ISBN 978-88-7794-466-5, retrieved 8 December 2025
- ^ "Bibiena, Maria Oriana Galli (Italian painter, 1656-1749)". Union List of Artist Names (ULAN). Retrieved 8 December 2025.
- ^ a b c "Galli Bibiena Maria Oriana". Città metropolitana di Bologna (in Italian). Retrieved 8 December 2025.
- ^ Campori, Giuseppe (1855). Gli artisti italiani e stranieri negli stati estensi catalogo storico corredato di documenti inediti per G. Campori (in Italian). tip. della R. D. Camera. p. 378.