Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Archivision Base to Module 13
Preferred Title:
Apotheosis of Saint Ignatius
Alternate Title:
Dome, Apse and Ceiling Frescoes, Sant'Ignazio
Image View:
General view of the illusionistic painted dome with its ribs and coffers surmounted by a painted lantern
Creator:
Andrea Pozzo (Italian painter, 1642-1709)
Location:
site: Sant'Ignazio (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1685-1694 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Baroque
Work Type 1:
mural painting (visual work)
Classification:
painting
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Relation Work:
part of Sant'Ignazio
Subjects:
allegorical; cycles or series; saints; Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint, 1491-1556; fresco; dome
Description:
"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
Collection:
Archivision Base Collection
Identifier:
1A1-PAN-SI-F1
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Apotheosis of Saint Ignatius