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| | MinschewFootnotesPaintingTowardArchitecture |
 | | "Illusionist architectural painting (quadratura), aimed at extending real architecture into an imaginary space, had existed ever since Peruzzi had 'opened up' the Sala delle Colonne in the Villa Farnesiana about 1516, but it was not until the second half of the sixteenth century that quadratura on ceilings really came into its own." Ibid., p. |
 | | The existing architecture, except as a shelter, played no part in articulating the "free-standing painting." My work took on new meaning as an architectonic entity in its own right. |
 | | They will become architectural, exist in the elements and derive part of their source of life and illumination from the world about. |
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