quadratura
A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
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quadratura. Painted perspectives of architecture in Roman,
Renaissance, and (especially)
Baroque ceilings and walls, often very realistic, and frequently (in C17 and C18) extending the actual interior architecture as
trompe l'œil work of breathtaking technical brilliance, as in the works of
quadraturisti such as A.
Pozzo.
Bibliography
Chilvers Osborne & Farr (eds.) (1988);
Jane Turner (1996)
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Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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