Filippo Juvarra
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Italian architect and stage set designer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Filippo Juvarra was an Italian architect, scenographer, engraver and goldsmith. He was active in a late-Baroque architecture style, working primarily in Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Biography Juvarra was born in Messina, Sicily, to a family of goldsmiths and engravers. After spending his formative years with his family in Sicily where he designed Messina's festive settings for the coronation of Philip V of Spain and Sicily , Juvarra moved to Rome in 1704. There he studied architecture with Carlo and Francesco Fontana.
