Giovanni Battista Gaulli (8 May 1639 – 2 April 1709), also known as Baciccio or Baciccia (Genoese nicknames for Giovanni Battista), was an Italian Baroque painter working in the High Baroque and early Rococo periods.

Giovanni Battista Gaulli (8 May 1639 – 2 April 1709), also known as Baciccio or Baciccia (Genoese nicknames for Giovanni Battista), was an Italian artist working in the High Baroque and early Rococo periods. He is best known for his grand illusionistic vault frescos in the Church of the Gesù in Rome, Italy.

Giovan Battista Gaulli detto il Baciccio (Genova, 8 maggio 1639 – Roma, 2 aprile 1709) è stato un pittore italiano.

He is best known for his stupendous trompe l’oeil ceiling paintings like his Adoration of the Name of Jesus painted between 1674 and 1679 in the vault of the Jesuit mother church in Rome, which Robert Engages has called “one of the most radiant and joyous visions of a …

2018年5月23日 · The Italian painter Giovanni Battista Gaulli (1639-1709) is known for the drama of his illusionistic ceiling paintings in fresco and the brilliance of his color harmonies in oils. Giovanni Battista Gaulli, called Baciccio, was born in Genoa and was baptized on May 10, 1639.

Giovanni Battista Gaulli, also known as Baciccio or Baciccia (Genoese nicknames for Giovanni Battista), was an Italian artist working in the High Baroque and early Rococo periods. He is best known for his grand illusionistic vault frescos in the Church of the Gesù in Rome, Italy.

Artist: Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio) (Italian, Genoa 1639–1709 Rome) Date: ca. 1670s. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 29 7/8 × 23 3/8 in. (75.9 × 59.4 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Gift of Álvaro Saieh Bendeck, Jean-Luc Baroni, and Fabrizio Moretti, in honor of Keith Christiansen, 2014. Object Number: 2014.277

Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Baciccio) In 1681, Marco Gallo was made a cardinal by Pope Innocent X, having served as Bishop of Rimini, a city in northwestern Italy from 1659. In this portrait he wears a vivid red cardinal’s biretta on his head and a silk mozzetta (short cape), its beautiful iridescence and volume created by carefully...

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