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quadro riportato
quadro riportato (Italian: ‘carried—or transferred—picture’). Term applied to a ceiling picture that is intended to look as if it is a framed easel picture placed overhead; there is no illusionistic foreshortening, figures appearing as if they were to be viewed at normal... Read more |
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Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Giovanni Battista Gaulli , 1639-1709, Italian painter, called Baciccia or Baciccio. He was noted for his airy, illusionistic frescoes, his figures of children, and his fine portraits. He was influenced by the style of Pietro da Cortona, Correggio, and the late works of Bernini. Adoration of the... Read more |
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illusionism
illusionism in art, a kind of visual trickery in which painted forms seem to be real. It is sometimes called trompe l'oeil [Fr.,=fool the eye]. The development of one-point perspective in the Renaissance advanced illusionist technique immeasurably. It was highly developed in the baroque period;... Read more |
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Agostino Tassi
Tassi, Agostino ( Agostino Buonamici) (b Ponzano Romano, c.1580; d Rome, 1644). Italian painter, active mainly in Rome. He was one of the outstanding quadratura specialists of the period, his most famous work being the illusionistic architectural setting for Guercino's celebrated Aurora fresco... Read more |
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di sotto in su
sotto in sù, di (It.: ‘from below upwards’). Term applied to an extreme form of illusionistic foreshortening in which figures or objects painted on a ceiling appear to be floating or suspended in space above the viewer. Mantegna's Camera degli Sposi in the Ducal Palace in Mantua... Read more |
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quadratura
quadratura. A type of illusionistic decoration in which architectural elements are painted on walls and/or ceilings in such a way that they appear to be an extension of the real architecture of the room into an imaginary space. It was common in ancient Roman art, was revived by Mantegna in the 15th... Read more |
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Coypel
Coypel , family of French painters. Noël Coypel, 1628-1707, director of the Académie de France à Rome and later of the Académie royale de péinture et de sculpture in Paris, was employed on the decorations of the palaces of the Louvre, Tuileries, Fontainebleau, and... Read more |
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Gerrit van Honthorst
Gerrit van Honthorst , 1590-1656, Dutch portrait, genre, and allegorical painter. In Italy (c.1610-1620) he gained a sound understanding of the works of Caravaggio, which greatly affected his style. He was a master at painting candlelit genre pieces and biblical scenes. Upon his return to Holland,... Read more |
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Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre , 1789-1851, French scene painter and physicist, inventor of the daguerreotype, a photograph produced on a silver-coated copper plate treated with iodine vapor. Known first for his illusionistic painted stage sets, Daguerre attracted further attention as the... Read more |
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Giulio Romano
Giulio Romano , c.1492-1546, Italian painter, architect, and decorator, whose real name was Giulio Pippi. He was the favorite pupil of Raphael and while still a youth was entrusted with the painting of most of the frescoes in the loggias (from designs by Raphael) and a group of figures in the Stanza... Read more |
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Fever Dreams
...between the transcendent satisfactions of art or artifice and the roiled perplexities of human love. Illusionists, painters, clockmakers, cartoonists, painters, writers, visionaries and goddesses--these are his people in The Barnum... |
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19th century clock inspires magic
...it would later be appropriated by the illusionist Erich Weiss who called himself Houdini...have lain in his early training as a clockmaker, which later helped him to create automata...F. Houdin, who was a professional clockmaker An example of the latter's work is... |
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Steven Millhauser: the writer's writer and author of Martin Dressler and...
...from everyday life. His work contains automatons and illusionists, artists and dreamers, and disenchanted royalty and...eponymous magician in his short story "Eisenheim the Illusionist" erodes the moral fabric of fin de siecle Prague with his sleight of hand, or whether the passionate clockmaker's son in ... |
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My husband is due back any minute! Opera.
...Espagnole (The Spanish Hour) is a saucy piece about an elderly clockmaker's young wife, who makes her sex life kick by clocking...effortless ease, though one assumes that the programme-credited illusionist, Paul Kieve, is playing some magical part here. And where... |
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Odes to top cinema are top contenders...
...man - given to him by his now-deceased father, who was a clockmaker. Hugo, blessed with the talent of his father, works towards...cinema - the film's main inspiration being the life of illusionist and visionary French filmmaker George Melies, who created... |
 "Hindustan Times (New Delhi, India)")
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Rashid Irani's review: Hugo
...out that the elderly man is none other than Melies, the illusionist-turned-founding father of fantasy films (A Trip to the...list supporting cast includes Jude Law as Hugo's deceased clockmaker father. The 89-year-old Christopher Lee shows up as... |
 "The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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Morgenstern works magic in enchanting debut novel
...publisher sees the book's forbidden romance between rival illusionists appealing to "Twilight" fans as well; film rights have...and Widget who are born on the circus' opening night; the clockmaker Herr Friedrick Thiessen who falls in love with the circus... |
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