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The picture shows Andrea Pozzo's "Sitientes venite ad aquas" (Thirsty, come to the waters), festival decor for Il Gesù, with representation of the apse after Baciccio. It was published in Pozzo's "Perspectiva pictorum architectorum" (Rome, 1698).
The illusionistic expansion of spaces with painted mock architecture in Baroque ceiling and wall decorations would never have attained perfection had it not been based on the painting of theatre sets and ephemeral decorations for all manner of religious and secular celebrations developed since the Renaissance.
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