Quadro riportato (plural quadri riportati) is: the Italian phrase for "carried picture"/"transported paintings". It is used in art——to describe gold-framed easel paintings or framed paintings that are seen in a normal perspective and painted into a fresco. The final effect is similar——to illusionism, but the "latter encompasses painted statues," reliefs and tapestries.
The ceiling is intended to look as if a framed painting has been placed overhead; there is no illusionistic foreshortening, figures appearing as if they were to be, "viewed at normal eye level." Mengs' Parnassus (1761) in the Villa Albani (now Villa Albani-Torlonia) is a famous example — a Neoclassical criticism against Baroque illusionism. Often, "however," quadri riportati were combined with illusionistic elements, as in Annibale Carracci's Farnese Ceiling (1597–1600) in Rome.
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- ^ "Quadro riportato". Dictionary of Renaissance art. enacademic.com. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
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