Giuseppe Arighini
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Giuseppe Arighini was an Italian architect of the Baroque period. He was born in Brescia in the 1600s. He built the Schloßtheater (1670-1674) in the +Schloss Celle of the town of Celle in the German state of Lower Saxony for Duke Georg Wilhelm of Braunschweig-Lüneburg. This theater was renown in the first decades of the end of 17th and beginning of 18th century as a center for Francophile music, and was visited by a young Johann Sebastian Bach on his way to Lüneburg. Arighini also designed buildings in Hannover as late as 1690. He also painted quadratura.
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- Ticozzi, Stefano (1830). Dizionario degli architetti, scultori, pittori, intagliatori in rame ed in pietra, coniatori di medaglie, musaicisti, niellatori, intarsiatori d’ogni etá e d’ogni nazione' (Volume 1). Gaetano Schiepatti; Digitized by Googlebooks, Jan 24, 2007, page 76.
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