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Andrea dal Pozzo
Andrea dal Pozzo , 1647-1709, Italian painter. Pozzo was a Jesuit priest and leading exponent of the baroque style. He was celebrated for his bold foreshortening and quadratura perspective , in which the lines of focus begin at the corners of the work and converge at a central vanishing point. Po... Read more
Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin , 1594-1665, French painter, b. Les Andelys. Poussin was considered the greatest of living painters by his contemporaries. Although he spent most of his life in Italy, his painting became the standard for French classical art. Poussin studied painting in the mannerist style in F... Read more
baroque
baroque , in art and architecture, a style developed in Europe, England, and the Americas during the 17th and early 18th cent. The baroque style is characterized by an emphasis on unity among the arts. With technical brilliance, the baroque artist achieved a remarkable harmony wherein painting,... Read more
Congress of Vienna
Congress of Vienna Sept., 1814-June, 1815, one of the most important international conferences in European history, called to remake Europe after the downfall of Napoleon I. Congress Participants The Austrian emperor Francis I (formerly Holy Roman Emperor Francis II ) was the host. Among... Read more
Italian art
Italian art works of art produced in the geographic region that now constitutes the nation of Italy. Italian art has engendered great public interest and involvement, resulting in the consistent production of monumental and spectacular works. In addition, Italian art has nearly always been closely ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Pozzo"

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...
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...
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...
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...
Peiresc, Nicolas-Claude Fabri De (15801635)
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...
Baroque
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...heterogenous phenomenon that included Carlo Dolci's pious quattrocentism, the limpid mist of Vermeer's rooms, and Cassiano Dal Pozzo's artists conscientiously recording, classifying, and reconstructing the ancient past. Like baroque ornaments that entwine...
Christopher Columbus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...granted, all Columbus's mistaken beliefs combined to make his idea seem feasible. In 1474 the Florentine scientist Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli sent a letter and map to Fernao Martins of Lisbon, telling Martins that a western voyage in the Atlantic would be...
Congress of Vienna
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Wellington represented Great Britain; the Russian delegation included Count Nesselrode, Count Capo d'Istria, and Carlo Andreo Pozzo di Borgo; among the Prussian diplomats were Karl August von Hardenberg, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and Karl vom und zum Stein...
Nicolas Poussin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...manifests diversified tendencies. He executed many drawings of antique monuments for the great patron of the arts Cassiano del Pozzo. He experimented also with the baroque style of Pietro da Cortona and Lanfranco in works such as the Martyrdom of St. Erasmus...
Pasquale Paoli
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...chose an English governor. Paoli, who favored independence and who had hoped to be appointed viceroy, was disappointed when Pozzo di Borgo became chief of the Corsican council of state. Paoli went to England in 1795 and remained there until his death...

Dictionary entries related to "Pozzo"

Pozzo, Andrea
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists Pozzo, Andrea (1642–1709). Italian...given the courtesy title ‘Padre Pozzo’) and worked much for Jesuit...stupendous feat of quadratura ever painted. Pozzo worked in several other Italian cities...
Pozzo, Cassiano dal
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists Pozzo, Cassiano dal. See Poussin .
quadratura
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...exponents of quadratura was probably Andrea Pozzo , in whose celebrated ceiling in S. Ignazio...particular point. Ellis Waterhouse writes of Pozzo's S. Ignazio ceiling: ‘From...extremely impressive.’ Unlike Pozzo, many artists relied on specialists...
Poussin, Nicolas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...first masterpiece. The cardinal's secretary, Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588–1657), became Poussin's most important...great deal from this ‘paper museum’, as Pozzo called it. In the ancient world he found guiding moral principles...
Brunelleschi, Filippo
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...in Rome and Florence. It was perhaps during this period that, during one of his residences in Florence, he met Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli and learned geometry from him. He may also have learned some of the principles of perspective from Toscanelli...
Testa, Pietro
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...Lucchesino) and active mainly in Rome. He trained with Domenichino and was employed by Nicolas Poussin's patron Cassiano dal Pozzo to make antiquarian drawings, but his bizarre imagination brings him closer in spirit to his contemporaries of romantic temperament...
Asam, Cosmas Damian
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...display and developing the dramatic effects of light and illusionism pioneered by Italian Baroque artists such as Bernini and Pozzo . The best known of their churches is that of St John Nepomuk, Munich (1733–46). The brothers themselves paid...
Pöppelmann, Matthäus Daniel
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...Hildebrandt and Carlo Fontana , but the Kronentor (crown-gate) (1713) of the Zwinger was derived from plates 60 and 100 in Pozzo 's Prattica della Perspettiva , published in a German edition in 1708. The ‘Indian’ Schloss Pillnitz...
Gaulli, Giovanni Battista
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...ceiling of the nave of the Gesù. This is one of the supreme masterpieces of illusionistic decoration, ranking alongside Pozzo's slightly later ceiling in S. Ignazio, and it appears in countless books as an archetypal example of Counter-Reformation...
Napoleon
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Antonin Artaud (Marat ); Abel Gance (Saint-Just ); Pierre Batcheff (Hoche ); Maxudian (Barras ); Chakatouny (Pozzo di Borgo ); Philippe Hériat (Salicetti ); Nicolas Koline (Tristan Fleuri ); Daniel Mendaille (Fréron...

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Freud Pozzo Uses Magic Software's iBOLT and eDeveloper to Integrate and Enhance its Internal Systems.
Business Wire; 2/2/2005; 700+ words ; ...technology, announced today that Freud Pozzo has chosen Magic iBOLT for a significant internal integration project. Freud Pozzo is one of the leading producers of tools...over forty years of experience, Freud Pozzo is renowned for its technologically advanced...
For Pozzo Construction Co. building profits means more market muscle and less red tape.
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 9/7/1987; ; 700+ words ; For Pozzo Construction Co., building profits means more market muscle and less red tape Victor Pozzo, president of Pozzo Construction Co., dislikes bureaucratic snags that turn into big...
Blount Inc. has acquired the stock of Pozzo Construction Co.
PR Newswire; 1/6/1986; 700+ words ; ...undisclosed amount, of Los Angeles-based Pozzo Construction Co., which will become a...s construction and engineering group. Pozzo is one of the top general contractors in...million. "We are very excited to have the Pozzo organization join our team," said Winton...
BLOUNT ANNOUNCES SALE OF POZZO CONSTRUCTION COMPANY AND INJECTION MOLDING METAL PRODUCTS OPERATIONS
PR Newswire; 5/5/1995; 700+ words ; ...of its last remaining construction operation, Pozzo Construction Company of Los Angeles. Pozzo was purchased by JDCA Construction Corporation...plans for each respective entity. The sale of Pozzo completes the disposition of Blount's construction...
Dal Pozzo joins Modern.(People)(Modern Materials Handling)(Darrell O. Dal Pozzo)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Modern Materials Handling; 1/1/2004; 604 words ; DARRELL O. DAL POZZO has joined Modern Materials Handling as Associate Publisher. This is Dal Pozzo's second tour on Modern. He started his career with Reed Business...is to make that happen in both print and online," says Dal Pozzo.
L'arte della prospettiva: L'opera e I'insegnamento di Andrea Pozzo e Ferdinando Galli Bibiena in Piemonte.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 11/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...L'OPERA E I'INSEGNAMENTO DI ANDREA POZZO E FERDINANDO GALLI BIBIENA IN PIEMONTE...roughly 1724; and the peripatetic Andrea Pozzo in 1678 and again in the early years of the eighteenth century. Pozzo died in 1709 in Vienna, where Seiter had...
Oberhausen, Michael and Riccardo Pozzo, editors. Vorlesungsverzeichnisse der Universitat Konigsberg (1720-1804).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; OBERHAUSEN, Michael and Riccardo Pozzo, editors. Vorlesungsverzeichnisse der...university history, Professors Oberhausen and Pozzo have edited the course announcements at...Enlightenment thought. Oberhausen and Pozzo concur with Mordechai Feingold's description...
Pozzo points finger at players
Newspaper article from: The Malay Mail; 11/14/2006; 320 words ; UDINESE owner Giampaolo Pozzo has blamed his players in the wake of...slip to 10th in the Serie A standings. Pozzo was left fuming after the poor display...Unsurprisingly, Galeone has welcomed Pozzo's punishment in the wake of their emphatic...
PARAMOUNT PICTURES PROMOTES RAE ANN DEL POZZO TO VICE PRESIDENT, FACILITIES OPERATIONS, FOR THE STUDIO GROUP
PR Newswire; 4/14/1992; 554 words ; ...PARAMOUNT PICTURES PROMOTES RAE ANN DEL POZZO TO VICE PRESIDENT, FACILITIES OPERATIONS...April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Rae Ann Del Pozzo has been promoted to vice president, facilities...Pictures, it was announced today. Del Pozzo is responsible for all facilities and building...
Vittorio Pozzo: 'El Viejo Maestro'.(Cancha)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México); 4/14/2006; 700+ words ; ...sino la estrategia. El nombre de Vittorio Pozzo ha quedado grabado en la historia del futbol...muy adelantado a su poca. De la mano de Pozzo, Italia conquist el Mundial de 1934 y...exitoso, y por ltimo periodista destacado, Pozzo, o "El Viejo Maestro" ("Il Vecchio...