Giovanni Antonio Amadeo Façade 1473 Certosa di Pavia |
"The most general law in nature is equity – the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along lines of greatest structural efficiency."
– Herbert Read (1893-1968)
Paolo Veronoese Sala dell'Olimpo 1560-65 enfilade with trompe l'oeil frescoes Villa Barbaro, Maser |
Cesare Baglione Grotesques ca. 1588 fresco Rocca Meli Lupi di Soragna |
Paolo Uccello Clock with heads of Prophets in roundels 1443 fresco Duomo, Florence |
Ambrogio Bergognone St Ambrose enthroned with Saints ca. 1514 oil on panel Certosa di Pavia |
Scarpagnino Façade 1505-46 Palazzo Contarini delle Figure, Venice |
Dosso Dossi Ceiling 1530 fresco Villa Imperiale, Pesaro |
Michelangelo Ceiling 1526-33 Medici Chapel Sagrestia Nuova, San Lorenzo, Florence |
Domenico Gargiulo Lay Brothers' Choir 1640-42 fresco Certosa di San Martino, Naples |
Filippo Lippi Annunciation 1437-39 tempera on panel Frick Collection, New York |
Domenico Valeriani Ballroom 1731-33 fresco Casina del Caccia, Stupinigi |
Palma il Vecchio St Barbara 1524-25 Santa Maria Formosa, Venice |
Giovanni Antonio Fasolo Central hall 1565-70 fresco Villa Caldogno |
Camillo Procaccini Last Judgment 1585-87 fresco San Prospero, Reggio Emilia |
Agostino Tassi Trompe l'oeil loggia with landscape views 1619-21 fresco Palazzo Lancellotti, Rome |