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    painting, which includes the techniques of perspective di sotto in sù and quadratura, is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which trompe-l'œil...
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    Unit. Before he left Padua, Gregory published Vera Circuli et Hyperbolae Quadratura (1667) in which he approximated the areas of the circle and hyperbola...
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    his private notebooks. Huygens's first publication was Theoremata de Quadratura Hyperboles, Ellipsis et Circuli (Theorems on the quadrature of the hyperbola...
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    used by painters to "open up" the space of a wall or ceiling is known as quadratura. Examples include Pietro da Cortona's Allegory of Divine Providence in...
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    17th century Baroque Flemish Baroque Caravaggisti in Utrecht Tenebrism Quadratura Louis XIII style Lutheran Baroque Stroganov School Animal painting Guild...
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    Taylor and Maclaurin series in an unpublished version of his work De Quadratura Curvarum. However, this work was never completed and the relevant sections...
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    more dramatic. The interior effects were often achieved with the use of quadratura (i.e. trompe-l'œil painting combined with sculpture): the eye is drawn...
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    of looking up at heaven. Another feature of Baroque churches are the quadratura; trompe-l'œil paintings on the ceiling in stucco frames, either real or...
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    17th century Baroque Flemish Baroque Caravaggisti in Utrecht Tenebrism Quadratura Louis XIII style Lutheran Baroque Stroganov School Animal painting Guild...
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    17th century Baroque Flemish Baroque Caravaggisti in Utrecht Tenebrism Quadratura Louis XIII style Lutheran Baroque Stroganov School Animal painting Guild...
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