Stucco figures extend one of these works by Giovanni Battista Gaulli honoring the name of Jesus. A disc marks the spot to best appreciate one of these works by Andrea Pozzo, depicting celebrations amidst clouds as a beam of light splits four ways in the Glorification of St. Ignatius. In the quadro riportato technique, an illusionistic frame appears around paintings of this type, as seen in Guido Reni’s Aurora. America sits on an alligator as (*) Apollo rides past the four continents in a painting of this type by Tiepolo for the Würzburg Residence. Sibyls and prophets appear along the sides of a painting of this type, which also depicts a brain-like cloud of drapery around a man reaching his arm out. For 10 points, the Creation of Adam appears in frescoes Michelangelo created for what part of the Sistine Chapel? ■END■
ANSWER: ceiling paintings [accept vaults or barrel-vault ceilings; prompt on frescoes or the Sistine Chapel or illusionistic paintings until they are respectively read by asking “where were they located”; prompt on palaces or trompe l’oeil or di sotto in su or quadratura by asking “where were they located?”]
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