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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.
Artist: Giovanni Battista Gaulli: Year: 1661–1679 ... Giovanni Battista Gaulli owes a great deal of his success on the ceiling fresco to ... New York: H.N. Abrams ...
By 1968 the institution became known as the Newport Harbor Art Museum, and in 1972 moved to a nearby, larger location to a storefront on the Balboa Peninsula. [6] In 1977 the museum opened its doors in Newport Beach at a 23,000 sq ft (2,100 m 2) space [7] – with 7,714 sq ft (716.7 m 2) of exhibition space [8] – designed by local architects Langdon & Wilson [9] on San Clemente Drive in ...
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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 ...
The ceiling of the apse is adorned by the painting Glory of the Mystical Lamb by Baciccia (Giovanni Battista Gaulli). [10] The most striking feature of the interior decoration is the ceiling fresco, the grandiose Triumph of the Name of Jesus (1678-1679) [11] by Giovanni Battista Gaulli. Gaulli also frescoed the cupola, including lantern and ...