Roman High Baroque - Decorative

Roman High Baroque decorative painting used fresco, perspective, and large figure groups in churches and palaces. Pietro da Cortona spread allegorical figures across broad ceiling spaces, while Andrea Pozzo used perspective to make architecture appear to open into the sky. These effects depended on the viewer’s position below. Tiepolo later developed expansive ceiling painting from a Venetian base, extending this decorative history beyond Rome and the seventeenth century.