Ottavio Viviani (c. 1579-c. 1641) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Viviani was born in

Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo ...

. He was initially a pupil of Tommaso Sandrino. He painted for the royal palace of

Monaco Monaco (; ), officially the Principality of Monaco (french: Principauté de Monaco; Ligurian: ; oc, Principat de Mónegue), is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Lig ...

and in the Ducal palace of Sassuolo. He specialized in

quadratura Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective ''di sotto in sù'' and ''quadratura'', is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which ''trompe-l'œil'', perspective tools such as foreshortening, an ...

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* 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Brescia Italian Baroque painters Quadratura painters Year of birth uncertain Year of death unknown {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub