quadratura

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quadratura. Painted perspectives of architecture in Roman, Renaissance, and (especially) Baroque ceilings and walls, often very realistic, and frequently (in C17 and C18) extending the actual interior architecture as trompe l'œil work of breathtaking technical brilliance, as in the works of quadraturisti such as A. Pozzo.

Bibliography

Chilvers Osborne & Farr (eds.) (1988);
Jane Turner (1996)

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