Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: Apotheosis of Saint Ignatius
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Collection:
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Archivision Base to Module 13
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Preferred Title:
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Apotheosis of Saint Ignatius
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Alternate Title:
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Dome, Apse and Ceiling Frescoes, Sant'Ignazio
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Image View:
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Close-up of the apse fresco
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Creator:
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Andrea Pozzo (Italian painter, 1642-1709)
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Location:
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site: Sant'Ignazio (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
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Date:
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ca. 1685-1694 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Baroque
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Work Type 1:
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mural painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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painting
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Relation Work:
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part of Sant'Ignazio
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Subjects:
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allegorical; cycles or series; saints; Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint, 1491-1556; fresco; heroic figure; S. Ignatius
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Description:
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"Pozzo was an architect, history painter, and author and became a Jesuit lay brother in 1665. He was a noted trompe l'oeil specialist by the late 1670s. He was brought to Rome in 1681 to work on the commemorative scheme surrounding S. Ignatius Loyola's rooms adjoining the Gesù, and was engaged on Jesuit projects in and near Rome for the next 20 years. His ceiling frescoes in S. Ignazio, Rome (1688-1694), fused the real architecture of the church and the teeming heavenly scene in an overwhelming display of quadratura illusionism which marked an important step in the development of the Baroque. The work was financed by sales of his immensely successful treatise Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum (vol. 1, 1693)." The lavish Baroque fresco of 17 m of diameter is devised to make an observer, standing on the spot marked by a golden disc set into the nave floor, see a lofty vaulted cupola decorated by statues, while in fact the ceiling is hemi-cylindrical. Closer to the altar a second marker is ideal for viewing
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Collection:
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Archivision Base Collection
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Identifier:
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1A1-PAN-SI-D2
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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