“Quadratura: Illusionistic painting on a ceiling or wall in which perspective and foreshortening of architectural members, figure, etc., give the impression that the interior is open and limitless. Practiced by Italian baroque specialty painters, known as quadraturisti or quadratisti.”
Excerpted from: Diamond, David G. The Bulfinch Pocket Dictionary of Art Terms. Boston: Little Brown, 1992.
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