Sant'Ignazio, Apotheosis of Saint Ignatius (Rome, Italy) : Close-up of the painted lantern
- Creator:
- Pozzo, Andrea, 1642-1709
- Published/Created:
- Rome, Lazio, Italy
ca. 1685-1694 - Date Depicted:
- 10/1/1998
1500 AD - 1699 AD - Materials:
- fresco
- 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)." 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 the false dome painted above the crossing.
- Variant Titles:
- Dome, Apse and Ceiling Frescoes, Sant'Ignazio
- Topics:
- Architecture -- Italy -- 17th century -- (YVRC)
- Period/Style:
- Baroque
- Culture:
- Italian
- Accession Number:
- 1A1-PAN-SI-F2
- Genre:
- paintings (AAT)
- Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Paintings & Drawings
- 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:
- allegorical; cycles or series; saints; Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint, 1491-1556 oil painting (technique) visual works; paintings (visual works); mural paintings (visual works) fresco; dome
- Source Creator:
- Gilchrist, Scott
- Source Title:
- Archivision Base Collection
- Source Created:
- 2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
10/1/1998 - 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:
- 10091387
- PID:
- digcoll:1835781