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Giovanni Battista Gaulli (8 May 1639 – 2 April 1709), also known as Baciccio or Baciccia (Genoese nicknames for Giovanni Battista), was an Italian Baroque painter working in the High Baroque and early Rococo periods. He is best known for his grand illusionistic vault frescos in the Church of the Gesù in Rome.
Bernini is responsible for not only obtaining the commission for Gaulli, but also for inspiring some of the designs. [4] If not for Bernini's illusionistic merging of architecture and sculpture, in the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa at the Cornaro Chapel in Santa Maria della Vittoria, Gaulli's ceiling fresco may have turned out quite differently. [5]
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California.SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art, and has built an internationally recognized collection with over 33,000 works of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts. [2]
The ceiling of the apse is adorned by the painting Glory of the Mystical Lamb by Baciccia (Giovanni Battista Gaulli). [11] The most striking feature of the interior decoration is the ceiling fresco, the grandiose Triumph of the Name of Jesus (1678-1679) [12] by Giovanni Battista Gaulli. Gaulli also frescoed the cupola, including lantern and ...
Stained glass windows depicting Saint Theresa of Avila (left) and Ludovica Albertoni (right) Bernini's sculpture of Albertoni in the Altieri chapel of San Francesco a Ripa. Close up of Bernini's sculpture. Ludovica Albertoni was born in 1473 in Rome to the prominent nobles Stefano Albertoni and Lucretia Tebaldi. Her father died around 1475 and ...
Illusionistic ceiling 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, perspective tools such as foreshortening, and other spatial effects are used to create the illusion of three-dimensional space on an otherwise two ...
Ventura Salimbeni, Sienese School artist whose works include Disputa of the Eucharist; became a Knight of the Golden Spur for his work in the Basilica of San Pietro [509] Francisco Salzillo, Spanish Baroque sculptor who did work for a Capuchin monastery in the Region of Murcia and churches in the area [510] [511]
Old Woman Reading, Rembrandt, 1655. The art collection of the Duke of Buccleuch is mostly European. The holdings, principally collected over a period of 300 years, comprise some 500 paintings, 1,000 miniatures and an enormous selection of objets d'art including furniture, porcelain, armour, jewellery and silverwork.