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2. Illusionistic ceiling painting - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Fresco - Wikipedia

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   Some art historians believe that fresco artists from Crete may have been sent to various locations as part of a trade exchange, a possibility which raises to the fore the importance of this art form within the society of the times. The most common form of fresco was Egyptian wall paintings in tombs, usually using the a secco technique ...

4. List of church murals in Sweden - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of church murals in Sweden which are also referred to as ceiling paintings, wall paintings or sometimes church frescos. In Swedish, they are usually called kalkmålningar (lime paintings) takmålningar (ceiling paintings) or väggmålningar (wall paintings). The list is far from complete.

5. Mural - Wikipedia

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   Ceiling painting, by Jean-André Rixens. Salle des Illustres, Le Capitole, Toulouse, France Prehistoric Egyptian mural painted on a Nekhen tomb wall c. 3,500 B.C. with aspects in the Gerzeh culture style. A mural is any piece of graphic artwork that is painted or applied

6. Pompeian Styles - Wikipedia

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   The colors warm up once again, and they are used to advantage in the depiction of scenes drawn from mythology, landscapes, and other images. [6] Intricate paintings appeared busier and used the wall in its entirety to be complete. [4] The overall feeling of the walls typically formed a mosaic of framed pictures. The lower zones of these walls ...

7. Trompe-l'œil - Wikipedia

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   Ceiling of the Treasure Room of the Archaeological Museum of Ferrara, Italy, painted in 1503–1506. Trompe-l'œil (French for 'deceive the eye'; / t r ɒ m p ˈ l ɔɪ / tromp-LOY; French: [tʁɔ̃p lœj] ⓘ) is an artistic term for the highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface.