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Illusionistic ceiling painting

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ceiling in such a way that it seems to continue the existing architecture. The perspective of this illusion is centered towards one focal point. The steep foreshortening of the figures, and the painted walls and pillars were and are used to create an illusion of deep recession; a heavenly sphere or
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is directly tied to seventeenth-century theories of perspective and the representation of architectural space. Due to its reliance on perspective theory, it more fully unites architecture, painting and sculpture and gives a more overwhelming impression of illusionism than earlier examples.
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that overwhelmed contemporary spectators with its exuberant illusionistic effects and became one of the first High Baroque masterpieces. Lanfranco's work in Rome (1613–1630) and in Naples (1634–1646) was fundamental to the development of illusionism in Italy.
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to projects for ceilings and overcame the problems of applying linear perspective to the concave surfaces of domes in order to dissolve the architecture and create illusions of limitless space.
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dome at Sant'Ignazio (1685) creates an illusion of an actual architectural space on what is, in actuality, a slightly concave painted surface.
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Trevor Hunt, "From Mantegna to Michelangelo: illusionistic ceiling paintings of the Renaissance pave the way for Baroque excess"
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even an open sky. Paintings on ceilings could, for example, simulate statues in niches or openings revealing the sky.
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took the illusionistic ceiling a step farther in his frescoes of Christ and the Apostles for the cupola at the
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to create the perception of true space on a painted, most often frescoed, ceiling above the viewer.
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tradition in Italy as elsewhere, but the first ceiling painted to feign open space was created by
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and his team, but the figural subjects were still enclosed within multiple framed compartments (
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ceiling decorations, which often rely on intuitive artistic approaches to deception,
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or mostly flat ceiling surface above the viewer. It is frequently used to create the
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The artist would paint a feigned architecture in perspective on a flat or
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Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum Andreae Putei a societate Jesu
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The technique often uses foreshortened figures and an architectural
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Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power (Cortona)
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Quadratura : studies in Italian ceiling painting
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Quadratura

Andrea Pozzo
trompe-l'œil
Renaissance
Baroque
Rococo
trompe-l'œil
perspective
foreshortening
three-dimensional space
two-dimensional
illusion
oculus
Andrea Mantegna
Camera degli Sposi
cupola
Andrea Pozzo
frescoes
Sant'Ignazio, Rome
illusionism
art
reality

Camera degli Sposi
Ducal palace, Mantua
quattrocento
Italian Renaissance painting
Camera degli Sposi
Melozzo da Forlì

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