Il Gesù, Cappella di Sant'Ignazio (Rome, Italy) : Detail of the gilded bas-relief centered directly above the sarcophagus

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-C3

Genre:

architecture (AAT)
containers: coffins: sarcophagi (AAT)

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Furnishings & Decorative Arts
Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
Tools, Equipment & Instruments

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:

10095578

PID:

digcoll:1849739