Andrea Pozzo was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. He was best known for his grandiose frescoes using illusionistic technique called quadratura, in which architecture and fancy are intermixed. His masterpiece is the nave ceiling of the Church of Sant'Ignazio in Rome. Through his techniques, he has become one of the most remarkable figures of the Baroque period.
His masterpiece, the illusory perspectives in frescoes of the dome, the apse and the ceiling of Rome's Jesuit church of Sant-Ignazio were painted between 1685–1694 and are a remarkable and emblematic creation of High Roman Baroque.
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Illusionism in Architecture / Andrea Pozzo and the fake dome
Andrea Pozzo was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. He was best known for his grandiose frescoes using illusionistic technique called quadratura, in which architecture and fancy are intermixed. His masterpiece is the nave ceiling of the Church of Sant'Ignazio in Rome. Through his techniques, he has become one of the most remarkable figures of the Baroque period.
His masterpiece, the illusory perspectives in frescoes of the dome, the apse and the ceiling of Rome's Jesuit church of Sant-Ignazio were painted between 1685–1694 and are a remarkable and emblematic creation of High Roman Baroque.
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