Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 18, 2009 20:33:40 GMT
Caught the documentary 'Baroque' on BBC4 last week (second installment tonight), and was blown away by one particular artistic talent: Padre Andrea Pozzo.
This guy painted church ceilings in such a way that if you stood in the right spot you'd get an awesome optical illusion - perhaps that the roof was domed when it was actually flat, or that the painted scene receded into infinity.
Check out some of his work for yourself - keep clicking the pics to get hi-res and bear in mind that the ones that look like domes are just paintings. These are all flat - no domes, no windows, no columns, just paint.
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Pozzo
And he did them on the ceiling, for crying out loud! Talented or what?
But they look weird when viewed from the wrong angle.
Martin
This guy painted church ceilings in such a way that if you stood in the right spot you'd get an awesome optical illusion - perhaps that the roof was domed when it was actually flat, or that the painted scene receded into infinity.
Check out some of his work for yourself - keep clicking the pics to get hi-res and bear in mind that the ones that look like domes are just paintings. These are all flat - no domes, no windows, no columns, just paint.
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Pozzo
And he did them on the ceiling, for crying out loud! Talented or what?
But they look weird when viewed from the wrong angle.
Martin
