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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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