Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Triumph of the Name of Jesus
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Triumph of the Name of Jesus
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Alternate Title:
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Triumph of the Sacred Name of Jesus
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Image View:
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Detail, the damned are expelled and spill over the stucco "frame" in a dark triangular shadow, painted on the architecture
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Creator:
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Antonio Raggi I (Italian sculptor, 1624-1686); Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Italian painter, 1639-1709)
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Location:
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site: Il Gesù (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Via degli Astalli, 16
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GPS:
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+41.895833+12.479722
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Date:
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1678-1679 (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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fresco (painting)
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Work Type 2:
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stuccowork
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Classification:
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painting
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Material:
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fresco (pigment on plaster); stucco
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Technique:
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carving (processes); fresco painting (technique); modeling (forming)
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Description:
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The Church of the Gesù (Il Gesù) is the mother church of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in Rome. On 21 August 1672 Gian Paolo Oliva, the Father-General of the Jesuit Order, signed a contract with Gaulli commissioning him to fresco the dome, the pendentives and the nave and transept vaults of the church. The style so successfully developed for the pendentives was transferred to the vault of the great nave and reinterpreted, with still more dramatic compositional devices and on a very much larger scale, in the fresco representing the Triumph of the Name of Jesus (1678-1679). In this we see the hosts of heaven kneeling in adoration before the divine light that radiates from the monogram of Jesus, drawing the blessed up to heaven and casting the damned down into hell. Almost all are sharply foreshortened. The most striking aspect of the Triumph is its composition and the blending of architecture, painting and sculpture. Early sources state, and modern critics generally agree, that Bernini played a major role in its development. Bernini's pupil Antonio Raggi provided the stucco figures. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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6A2-I-R-TONJ-B06
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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