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Illusionistic ceiling painting
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'oeil
,
perspective
tools such as
foreshortening
, and other spatial effects are used to create the illusion of
three-dimensional space
on an otherwise
two-dimensional
or mostly flat ceiling surface above the viewer. It is frequently used to visually suggest an open sky, such as with the
oculus
in
Andrea Mantegna
's
Camera degli Sposi
, or a fictive architectural space such as in the illusionistic
cupola
, one of
Andrea Pozzo
's
frescoes
in
Sant'Ignazio
, Rome.
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