Andrea Pozzo - Wikipedia
WEBAndrea Pozzo (Italian: [anˈdrɛːa ˈpottso]; Latinized version: Andreas Puteus; 30 November 1642 – 31 August 1709) was an Italian Jesuit brother, Baroque painter, architect, decorator, stage designer, and art theoretician.
Andrea Pozzo - National Gallery of Art
WEBAndrea Pozzo. Italian, 1642 - 1709. Biography. Works of Art. Biography. Painter, architect, and theorist of perspective. Of Lombard origin (his father came from Como). Pozzo entered a monastery in 1665. He studied painting in Milan, Genoa, and Venice and was invited by P. Oliva, general of the Jesuit order, to come to Rome where he arrived in 1681.
Andrea Pozzo - 4 artworks - fresco - WikiArt.org
WEBAndrea Pozzo (Italian: [anˈdrɛːa ˈpottso]; Latinized version: Andreas Puteus; 30 November 1642 – 31 August 1709) was an Italian Jesuit brother, Baroque painter, architect, decorator, stage designer, and art theoretician. Pozzo was best known for his grandiose frescoes using the technique of quadratura to create an illusion of three ...
Smarthistory – Andrea Pozzo, Glorification of Saint Ignatius
WEBDec 6, 2023 · Fra Andrea Pozzo, Glorification of Saint Ignatius, ceiling fresco in the nave of Sant’Ignazio, Rome, 1691-94. More Smarthistory images… Cite this page. Pozzo’s fresco reaffirms the authority of the Catholic Church and hails its expansion across four continents.
A Matter of Perspective: Andrea Pozzo and Jesuit Art in Rome
WEBAndrea Pozzo (1642–1709) was an architect, painter, scenographer, and Jesuit lay brother. He worked in a variety of media, including fresco, oil paint, and wooden stage sets. In the service of his major patron, the Society of Jesus, Pozzo decorated Jesuit buildings in Mondovì, Rome, Frascati, Vienna, and elsewhere.
Andrea Pozzo: Baroque Mural Painter: Quadratura, Trompe l'oeil …
WEBThe Italian Jesuit painter and architect, Andrea Pozzo, was one of the finest exponents of illusionist mural painting of the Baroque era.
Andrea Pozzo — Google Arts & Culture
WEBAndrea Pozzo was an Italian Jesuit brother, Baroque painter, architect, decorator, stage designer, and art theoretician. Pozzo was best known for his grandiose frescoes using...
Andrea Pozzo | Rules and Examples of Perspective Proper for …
WEBCatalogue Raisonné. Title: Rules and Examples of Perspective Proper for Painters and Architects, etc. Author: Andrea Pozzo (Italian, Trento 1642–1709 Vienna) Translator: John James (British, active early 18th century) Engraver: Engraved and published by John Sturt (British, London 1658–1730 London) Printer: Benjamin Motte (British, died 1710)
Andrea Pozzo | Italian painter | Britannica
WEBAndrea Pozzo. Italian painter. Learn about this topic in these articles: influence of Mantegna. In Andrea Mantegna: Years as court painter in Mantua. …such as Giovanni Lanfranco and Andrea Pozzo, utilized a basically identical concept of total illusion dependent upon the location of a hypothetical viewer standing at a single point in the room.
The Master of Painted Architecture: Andrea Pozzo, S. J. and His ...
WEBJan 1, 2014 · Andrea Pozzo’s illusionistic work is well-known among historians of architecture and art, as is his Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum, published in the last decade of the seventeenth century.
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