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Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola

Name: Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola
Address: 8a Via del Caravita, Roma, Lazio, IT

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Camilla

July 7, 2021

One of my favorite churches in Rome. “The Apotheosis of Saint Ignatius" is an extraordinary illusionist fresco of Andrea Pozzo, Jesuit, architect and late-baroque painter, located on the ceiling of the Church of Sant'Ignatius of Loyola in Rome. The fresco, when viewed from the bottom, offers a prospective simulation of a second temple, superimposed on the first, the real one, in a sinuous movement of columns and arches stretching upward where, in a golden light, is depicted the glory of St. Ignatius with Christ carrying the Cross. From Christ's side a beam of light illuminates Ignatius, from which in turn moves toward four allegorical figures around him representing the four continents then-known.

Lorenzo

August 28, 2016

The Jesuit church of Saint Ignazio was supposed to have a glorious dome, but when the money ran out in 1642, the plans were scrapped. Instead of foregoing the dome entirely, painter and Jesuit brother Andrea Pozzo proposed that he paint a life-sized illusion of a dome that would fool the eyes of visitors (as long as they looked up from the proper angle). His masterpiece still fools the eye today. Painted between 1685 and 1694, it is a remarkable piece of perspective work.