Pietro Righini (2 August 1683 - 20 December 1742) was an Italian

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and

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. Born in

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, he was active as a scenic designer with both the

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and the

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. He painted the scenes to '' Bajazet'' and the ''Nino Drammi'' by Francesco Gambarini in 1719-1720. Among his pupils is Vincenzo Dal Rè.Architectural and Ornament Drawings: Juvarra, Vanvitelli, the Bibiena Family
by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Mary L. Myers, page 41.

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1683 births 1742 deaths 18th-century Italian architects 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian scenic designers 18th-century Italian male artists {{opera-bio-stub