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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 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 ...
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 ...
This is a list of notable people from the San Francisco Art Institute (1871–2022); [1] which was formerly known as the California School of Design (1871–1915, or CSD), and California School of Fine Arts (1916–1960, or CSFA). It was also sometimes referred to as the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (c. 1893–1906), for a building the school ...
San Francisco Arts Commission [56] Harry Lundeberg (1901-1957) E. Hunt: 1957 Sailors Union of the Pacific Building Bronze: 30 x 24 x 24 in. San Francisco Arts Commission [57] Smile: John Seward Johnson II: 1957 201 Spear St. Bronze
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The Bay Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area Figurative Art, Bay Area Figuration, and similar variations) was a mid-20th-century art movement made up of a group of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who abandoned working in the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a return to figuration in painting during the 1950s and onward ...