Ferdinando Galli, a painter and architect, was born at Bologna in 1657, and surnamed Bibiena from a territory of that name in Tuscany, in which his father was born. He acquired such reputation by his skill in architecture, that he was invited to the court of the Duke of Parma, and made his first painter and architect. Bibiena afterwards went to the emperor's court, where he had the same honours conferred upon him. He wrote two books on architecture; and died at Bologna in 1745. (Lanzi, Stor. Pitt.)