Biography

Domenico Valeriani and his brother Giuseppe (d. 1762) were Italian painters, pupils of Marco Ricci in Venice. They often worked together both in Italy and abroad as designers and perspective painters (the choir of the church of the Scalzi, ballroom in the Casina di Caccia, Stupinigi). In 1742, Giuseppe went to St. Petersburg where he served as the principal decorator of the court theaters. He executed wall panels and ceilings in the palaces of St. Petersburg and its environs. He died in St. Petersburg.