Il Gesù, Cappella di Sant'Ignazio (Rome, Italy) : Close-up of the sculptural group to the viewers left of the tomb
- Creator:
- Pozzo, Andrea, 1642-1709
- Published/Created:
- Rome, Lazio, Italy
ca. 1681-1695 - Date Depicted:
- ca. 1990's
1500 AD - 1699 AD - Materials:
- bronze
lapis lazuli
marble - Notes:
- 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).
- Topics:
- Architecture -- Italy -- 17th century -- (YVRC)
- Period/Style:
- Baroque
- Culture:
- Italian
- Accession Number:
- 1A2-I-R-G-2-G1
- Genre:
- architecture (AAT)
- Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
- Rights:
- Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement. - Access Restrictions:
- Yale Community Only
- Digital:
- saints; Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint, 1491-1556 carving ; construction ; oil painting (technique) building divisions; rooms and spaces; religious building spaces; chapels (rooms or structures); sepulchral chapels; built works; funerary structures; tombs aed
- Source Creator:
- Gilchrist, Scott
- Source Title:
- Archivision Base Collection
- Source Created:
- 2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
ca. 1990's - Source Note:
- Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Local Record Number:
- 4152
- OID:
- 10095596
- PID:
- digcoll:1827516