TASSI, Agostino
(b. 1578, Roma, d. 1644, Roma)

Frieze with ambassadors and spectators (detail)

1615-17
Fresco
Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome

Just as figure painters could make themselves independent of the quadraturista, there are instances in which the quadratura painter eschewed the collaboration of a figurista. One of these is provided by the versatile Agostino Tassi, who was not only a specialist in festival decorations, mock architecture, landscape prospects, and seascapes, but also functioned successfully on repeated occasions as his own figure painter.

The picture shows a detail of frieze with ambassadors and spectators in a painted loggia in the Salone dei Corazzieri in the Palazzo del Quirinale in Rome.