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| Gregorio de Ferrari Allegory of Spring ca. 1680-90 ceiling fresco Palazzo Rosso, Genoa |
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| Giovanni Domenico Ferretti (Giandomenico d'Imola) Triumph of Virtue over Violence 1714-15 ceiling fresco Villa La Magia, Quarrata |
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| Giovanni Domenico Ferretti (Giandomenico d'Imola) Triumph of Virtue over Violence (detail) 1714-15 ceiling fresco Villa La Magia, Quarrata |
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| Giovanni Domenico Ferretti (Giandomenico d'Imola) Triumph of Virtue over Violence (detail) 1714-15 ceiling fresco Villa La Magia, Quarrata |
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| Vito D'Anna Triumph of Souls departing Purgatory for Heaven 1754 ceiling fresco Chiesa di San Matteo al Cassaro, Palermo |
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| Giovanni Battista Crosato Phoebus and the Four Continents 1753 ceiling fresco Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
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| Jacopo Guarana Allegorical Composition (detail) 1757-58 ceiling fresco Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
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| Giovanni Domenico Cerrini Triumph of the Madonna over Heresy ca. 1675 ceiling fresco Chiesa di Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome |
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| Giovanni Domenico Cerrini Triumph of the Madonna over Heresy (Angels in Pendentive) ca. 1675 ceiling fresco Chiesa di Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome |
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| Giovanni Domenico Cerrini Triumph of the Madonna over Heresy (detail with Heretics consigned to Hell) ca. 1675 ceiling fresco Chiesa di Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome |
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| Giovanni Francesco Bagnoli Abduction of Europa ca. 1710 ceiling fresco Villa La Magia, Quarrata |
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| Filippo Lauri Design for Ceiling - Palazzo Borghese, Rome ca. 1671 watercolor modello for ceiling fresco Musée du Louvre |
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| Livio Modigliani Angel sounding Trumpet ca. 1598 ceiling fresco Abbazia di San Mercuriale, Forlì |
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| Giovanni Antonio Pucci Assumption of the Virgin ca. 1725 oil on canvas, mounted on ceiling Basilica di San Marco, Florence |
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| Benedetto Luti Apotheosis of Pope Martin V Colonna (detail) before 1724 ceiling fresco Palazzo Colonna, Rome |
The Ceiling
Suppose the Ceiling went Outside
And then caught Cold and Up and Died?
The only Thing we'd have for Proof
That he was Gone, would be the Roof;
I Think it would be Most Revealing
To find out how the Ceiling's Feeling.
– Theodore Roethke (1950)