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Pozzo, Andrea
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Andrea Pozzo Andrea Pozzo, S.J. (1642-1709), a Jesuit coadjutor brother, was a tremendously...architectorum was one of the earliest-known books written on perspectives. Pozzo was best known for applying his knowledge of perspectives to design...
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Andrea dal Pozzo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Andrea dal Pozzo , 1647-1709, Italian painter. Pozzo was a Jesuit priest and leading exponent of the baroque style...corners of the work and converge at a central vanishing point. Pozzo painted church ceilings (e.g., Sant' Ignazio in Rome...
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Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo , 1764-1842. Corsican politician and diplomat in Russian service...superseding Paoli. After the French reconquest of Corsica (1796), Pozzo di Borgo left the island. He entered the Russian diplomatic service in...
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Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli , 1397-1482, Italian cosmographer and mathematician. A physician by training, he was also known as Paul the Physician...
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Peiresc, Nicolas-Claude Fabri De (1580–1635)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...Kircher, Claude de Saumaise, John Selden, and Cassiano dal Pozzo, among others, reflects the breadth of his encyclopedic pursuits...Cardinal Francesco Barberini (1597 – 1679), whom dal Pozzo served as secretary, was one of Peiresc's key centers...
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Abraham, F(ahrid) Murray
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...After finding fame in Hollywood, he returned to Manhattan and played leading roles in classic works, such as Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream and King Lear , and in modern plays, memorably Pozzo in the 1988 revival of Waiting for Godot .
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Kasznar, Kurt
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...The Happy Time (1950), the guilt‐ridden Father in Six Characters in Search of an Author (1955), the pompous Pozzo in the first American production of Waiting for Godot (1956), the Austrian impresario Max Detweiler in The Sound of Music...
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Nicolas Poussin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...fastidious in workmanship, for a private and cultivated clientele. Works, 1630-1640 In the 1630s friendship with Cassiano dal Pozzo, amateur of the antique, led Poussin into a milieu of modest but genuine scholars. At this time his concern was poetical...
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Maulbertsch, Franz Anton (1724–1796)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...Kupferstecherakademie) in 1770 and the Berlin Academy of Artists in 1788. The example and work of such Italian artists as Andrea Pozzo (1642 – 1709) and Carlo Innocenzo Carlone (1686 – 1775), as well as that of Daniel Gran (1694...
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baroque
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...unidealized, ordinary people. The illusionistic effects of deep space interested many painters, including Il Guercino and Andrea Pozzo. Other baroque painters opened up interior spaces by representing long files of rooms, often with extended views through doors...
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