In Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power, how is the Critical assessment and legacy discussed?
Frescoes were numerous in Rome at the time; most represented galleries of framed episodes, quadro riportato such as found on the ceilings of the Sistine Chapel ceiling or in Annibale Carracci's Palazzo Farnese (completed in 1601) cycle. Baldassare Peruzzi had pioneered this style of painting called quadratura, in which the fresco replaces or simulates some of the architectural framework, using often forced perspective. Such trompe-l'œil artifices were not novel to Italian art, since for example Mantegna and Giulio Romano in Mantua had featured such frescoes; however, for Cortona, the luminous sky became a teeming tour de force, a style that influenced many other large fresco spectacles such as those by Tiepolo for example, in Madrid, by Ehrenstrahl in his "Council of the Virtues" from the House of Nobility, in Stockholm and in the frescoes depicting the Apotheosis of the Pisani Family  in the Villa Pisani at Stra. Other famous sotto in su frescoes in Rome include Andrea Pozzo's Apotheosis of St Ignatius  at the Roman church of Sant'Ignazio.
Stockholm Annibale Carracci Sistine Chapel Ehrenstrahl trompe-l'œil Mantegna sotto in su Baldassare Peruzzi Tiepolo Rome Sant'Ignazio quadro riportato Mantua House of Nobility Andrea Pozzo quadratura Giulio Romano Palazzo Farnese Villa Pisani at Stra Fresco fresco