Quadro riportato

Quadro riportato (plural quadri riportati) is the Italian phrase for "carried picture" or "transported paintings".

The final effect is similar to illusionism, but the latter encompasses painted statues, reliefs and tapestries.

[1] The ceiling is intended to look as if a framed painting has been placed overhead; there is no illusionistic foreshortening, figures appearing as if they were to be viewed at normal eye level.

Often, however, quadri riportati were combined with illusionistic elements, as in Annibale Carracci's Farnese Ceiling (1597–1600) in Rome.

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