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Toscanelli, Paolo dal Pozzo, 1397-1482, Italian cosmographer and mathematician. A physician by training, he was also known as Paul the Physician. He was for a time librarian at Florence. It is said that his map of the world was used by Columbus on the 1492 voyage to America. The Italian architect Brunelleschi may have learned principles of perspective from Toscanelli.
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Pozzo, Andrea dal, 1647-1709, Italian painter. Pozzo was a Jesuit priest and leading exponent of the baroque style. He was celebrated for his bold foreshortening and quadratura perspective, in which the lines of focus begin at the corners of the work and converge at a central vanishing point. Pozzo painted church ceilings (e.g., Sant' Ignazio in Rome, 1688) with seemingly endless heavenly vistas. His illusionism influenced Solimena and Tiepolo and his treatise on perspective (1692-97) spread understanding of his techniques throughout Europe.
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