Frieze with ambassadors and spectators (detail)
by TASSI, Agostino, Fresco
Just as figure painters could make themselves independent of the quadraturista, there are instances in which the quadratura painter eschewed the collaboration of a figurista. One of these is provided by the versatile Agostino Tassi, who was not only a specialist in festival decorations, mock architecture, landscape prospects, and seascapes, but also functioned successfully on repeated occasions as his own figure painter.
The picture shows a detail of frieze with ambassadors and spectators in a painted loggia in the Salone dei Corazzieri in the Palazzo del Quirinale in Rome.