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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 stucco reliefs were executed by Ercole Antonio Raggi and Leonardo Reti, following the drawings of Baciccia who wanted to effect a real continuity between painting and sculpture. Illusionism in art history means either the artistic tradition in which artists create a work of art that appears to share the physical space with the viewer [1] or ...
Pages in category "Sculpture gardens, trails and parks in New York (state)" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The city's parks have been described as the "greatest outdoor public art museum" in the United States. [1] More than 300 sculptures can be found on the streets and parks of the New York metropolitan area, many of which were created by notable sculptors such as Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Daniel Chester French, and John Quincy Adams Ward.
David Bailly (1584–1657), 3 paintings : Portrait of a Man, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ; Lazzaro Baldi (c. 1623–1703), 1 painting : Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, private collection ; Hans Baldung (1484–1545), 22 paintings : The Knight, the Young Girl, and Death, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Giovanni Battista Crema (1883–1964) Daniele Crespi (1598–1630) Giovan Battista Crespi (il Cerano) (1573–1632) Giuseppe Maria Crespi (Lo Spagnuolo) (1665–1747) Donato Creti (1671–1749) Carlo Crivelli (1430–1495) Vittore Crivelli (1440–1502) Baldassare Croce (1558–1628) Carlo Curci (1846–after 1916) Francesco Curradi (1570–1661)
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 ...