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- painting, which includes the techniques of perspective di sotto in sù and quadratura, is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which trompe-l'œil...
- Unit. Before he left Padua, Gregory published Vera Circuli et Hyperbolae Quadratura (1667) in which he approximated the areas of the circle and hyperbola...
- used by painters to "open up" the space of a wall or ceiling is known as quadratura. Examples include Pietro da Cortona's Allegory of Divine Providence in...
- more dramatic. The interior effects were often achieved with the use of quadratura (i.e. trompe-l'œil painting combined with sculpture): the eye is drawn...
- Quadratura circuli, 1544...
- of looking up at heaven. Another feature of Baroque churches are the quadratura; trompe-l'œil paintings on the ceiling in stucco frames, either real or...
- In ceilings the new po****r style of frescoing emerged, known as the quadratura from its elaborate framing, was reflected in the framing of large looking-gl****es...
- 1848 uprisings Pier Francesco Battistelli (17th century), painter of quadratura Stefano Benni (born 1947), writer Pope Benedict XIV (1675–1758) (Prospero...
- as a painter of quadratura. He trained under Andrea Pozzo. For the church of Sant'Angelo Magno of Ascoli Piceno, he painted quadratura for which Tommaso...
- his private notebooks. Huygens's first publication was Theoremata de Quadratura Hyperboles, Ellipsis et Circuli (Theorems on the quadrature of the hyperbola...