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quadro riportato

The Oxford Dictionary of Art | 2004 | | Copyright

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 eye level. Mengs' Parnassus (1761) in the Villa Albani (now Villa Torlonia), Rome, is a famous example—a kind of Neoclassical manifesto against Baroque illusionism. Often, however, quadro riportati were combined with illusionistic elements, as in Annibale Carracci's Farnese Ceiling (1597–1600) in Rome.

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quadro riportato

A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | 2000 | | Copyright

quadro riportato.
1. Painting on canvas, later transferred to a ceiling, etc.

2. Ceiling-painting without foreshortening illusionistic effects, designed as though it is to be seen at normal eye-level. It was a Neo-Classical reaction against Baroque quadratura and trompe l'œil work, and a good example is the Parnassus (1761) at the Villa Albani, Rome, by Anton Raffael Mengs (1728–79).

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Chilvers Osborne & Farr (eds.) (1988);
Jane Turner (1996)

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists | 2003 | | Copyright

quadro riportato (It.: ‘carried—or transferred—picture’). Term applied to a ceiling picture that is painted without illusionistic foreshortening, as if it were to be viewed at normal eye level. Mengs's Parnassus (1761) in the Villa Albani (now Villa Torlonia), Rome, is a famous example—a kind of Neoclassical manifesto against Baroque illusionism.

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