Giovanni Battista Innocenzo Colombo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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painter, scenic designer, architect
Date of Birth: 16-Dec-1717
Place of Birth: Arogno, Switzerland
Date of Death: 10-Apr-1801
Profession: architect, painter
Nationality: Switzerland, Germany
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Giovanni Battista Innocenzo Colombo
- Giovanni Battista Innocenzo Colombo (16 December 1717 – 10 April 1801) was a Swiss painter and stage set designer. Born in Arogno, he was a pupil of his uncle, Luca Antonio Colomba.
- He worked in Frankfurt, Mannheim, Vienna, Hamburg, Prague, Munich and other cities.
- For 18 years, he was the court architect at Stuttgart and stage set designer for the Duke.
- He also worked in Turin, but his major work was a large ceiling fresco at the Ludwigsburg Palace. His first documented paintings were for allegorical decorations and quadratura for the ceiling of the Römer at Frankfurt.
- This work was destroyed in World War II.
- In 1749, he was commissioned to decorate a parochial church at Uetersen in Schleswig-Holstein.
- In 1750, he decorated the ducal theatre at Hannover.
- From 1751 to 1768, he was the court painter for the Duke of Württemberg, Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, who founded the Academy of Art of Stuttgart.
- In Stuttgart, he created the set designs for operas of Niccolò Jommelli, and the ballets of Jean-Georges Noverre. From 1769 to 1771, he was the stage set designer for the Teatro Regio, substituting for the members of the Galliari family.
- An example of work in that theatre is his sets for the 1770 opera Annibale a Torino, written by Jacopo Durandi, with music by Giovanni Paisiello.
- This opera was admired by Mozart and his father on 16 January 1771. From 1774 to 1780, he painted sets for Her Majesty's Theatre.
- He participated in an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1774. In 1780, he returned to Arogno.
- He also painted small canvases depicting scenes of plays, with attention to the landscape.
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Source: Johann Kaspar Füssli: Künstlerlexikon, Zürich 1810.
License: CC-PD-Mark
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Johann Rudolph Schellenberg
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| Alternative names | Johann Rudolf Schellenburg; Johann Rudolf Schellenberg; Johann Rudolf Scholtemberge; Schellenberg | ||
| Description | Swiss entomologist, illustrator, painter, artist and botanist | ||
| Date of birth/death | 4 January 1740 | 6 August 1806 | |
| Location of birth/death | Basel | Töss | |
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Source: Johann Kaspar Füssli: Künstlerlexikon, Zürich 1810.
License: CC-PD-Mark
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