1. Giulio Parigi was an Italian architect and designer.
18 Facts About Giulio Parigi
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Giulio Parigi was the main member of a family of architects and designers working for the Grand Ducal court of the Medici.
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Giulio Parigi's father, Alfonso Parigi the Elder, was an architect and designer working in Florence for the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
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Giulio Parigi became noted as one of the most innovative stage designers of the 17th-century and was the first architect to use the loggia style in public buildings.
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Giulio Parigi's father was an architect and set designer who was in service to the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
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Giulio Parigi was an important early scenic designer for operas at the birth of that artform.
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Giulio Parigi staged operas at the Medici court and in Florence's opera houses; creating innovative new machinery for sets for work's like Ottavio Rinuccini's Festa dell'Agnolo Gabriello and Marco da Gagliano's La regina Sant'Orsola.
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Giulio Parigi's son, Alfonso Parigi, was an innovative scenic designer for operas.
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In 1610 Giulio Parigi built the Convent of the Peace of the Friars of St Bernard, outside of the Roman Gate.
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From 1613 onwards Giulio Parigi worked intensively as a civil engineer commissioned by the Grand Duke.
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Giulio Parigi worked on the Boboli Gardens, constructing the Grotto of Vulcan and laying out the second axis of the Boboli Gardens, at right angles to the first, with the bosquets on either side.
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Giulio Parigi constructed the Loggia del Grano in 1619, a Tuscan style loggia, and was thus amongst the first architects to employ the loggia in public buildings such as markets.
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Giulio Parigi rebuilt the Villa di Poggio Imperiale, and constructed the Ospedale dei Medicanti, the church of San Felice in Piazza and worked on projects for the Palazzo della Crocetta for Maria Maddalena de' Medici.
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Giulio Parigi's is the grand stairs of Palazzo Gianni-Lucchesini-Vegni.
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Giulio Parigi's set designs were notable for the instructions of machines that could emulate natural phenomena.
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Giulio Parigi was an artist who worked in oil, drawing and frescoes; he was an engraver, cabinet-maker, jeweller, landscape designer, architect and engineer.
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Giulio Parigi was the Master of an Academy where he studied Euclid, taught mechanics, perspective, civilian and military architecture.
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Giulio's son, Alfonso's grandson, Alfonso Parigi the Younger was an architect and engraver.