Baroque illusionism
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Illusionistic painting techniques such as Quadratura were often employed by Italian Baroque artists in an architectural context; Andrea Pozzo’s Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum'', a two-volume treatise on the techniques involved which was published in 1693 and 1700, appeared in various editions and translations during the eighteenth century and became highly influentual.
Pozzo himself notably worked in this style at Sant'Ignazio in Rome and the Jesuit Church in Vienna. Further examples of such painting include the work of Pietro da Cortona at the Palazzo Barberini; Gianbattista Tiepolo at the Ca' Rezzonico in Venice, the Villa Pisani at Stra, and the throne room at the Royal Palace of Madrid; Paolo Veronese at the Villa Rotonda in Vicenza; and Baldassare Peruzzi at the Villa Farnesina in Rome.
