Donato Giuseppe Frisoni (b. 1681 or 1683,

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– d. 29 November 1735,

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) was an Italian architect active during the

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period in Northern Italy, Southern Germany, and Bohemia.

Biography

Donato Giuseppe Frisoni was born in

, a village in the , in what was then the

Duchy of Milan The Duchy of Milan (; ) was a state in Northern Italy, created in 1395 by Gian Galeazzo Visconti, then the lord of Milan, and a member of the important Visconti of Milan, Visconti family, which had been ruling the city since 1277. At that time, ...

. Frisoni traveled to and worked in

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under , who had been at work in the Austrian capital since 1695. After 1700, Frisoni traveled to

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to work with his brother-in-law Tomasso Soldati under . In 1708, Frisoni and Soldatti were recruited by Johann Friedrich Nette, court architect in the

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, to work as a stuccoist at

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. Frisoni and Soldati began working at Ludwigsburg with in the interiors of its Old Main Building in 1709. Over the winter of 1709, Frisoni returned to Laino and married Anna Maria Allio. Their marriage would produce two children.

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* * 1680s births 1785 deaths People from Como 18th-century Italian architects {{Italy-architect-stub