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 ANDREA POZZO(Trento 1642- Vienna 1709)
Architect, set designer and theorist of perspective, Andrea Pozzo is one of those Baroque artists who, through the force of their imagination, broke open the ceilings and vaults of churches to let paradise descend. Not by coincidence, his most famous work is the Glory of St Ignazio, in the Roman church of the same name where, if the viewer stands in a certain place and raises his eyes, he will have a marvelous vision of the saints in glory. In1703 he was called to Vienna where he became a reference point for the German painters of the XVIII century. An excellent mathematician, he wrote a treatise on perspective, the Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum.
(From "Italian Art" Edited by Gloria Fossi, Giunti).
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