Ottavio Viviani (c. 1579-c. 1641) was an Italian painter of the

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period. Viviani was born in

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. He was initially a pupil of

Tommaso Sandrino Tomasso Sandrino (1575–1631) (also Sandrini) was an Italian painter of quadratura in Northern Italy, active in his native Brescia. Among the church ceilings he helped fresco with quadrature are Sant Faustino, San Domenico, Chiesa del Carmine, ...

. He painted for the royal palace of

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and in the Ducal palace of Sassuolo. He specialized in

quadratura Illusionistic ceiling 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'', perspective tools such as foreshortening, and other ...

References

* 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Brescia Italian Baroque painters Quadratura painters Year of birth uncertain Year of death unknown {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub