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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Il Gesù (Rome, Lazio, Italy)en_US
dc.coverage.temporalca. 1681-1695 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorPozzo, Andreaen_US
dc.date1681-1695en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-16T19:28:00Z
dc.date.available2013-05-16T19:28:00Z
dc.date.issued1681-1695en_US
dc.identifier218013en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 656en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/125937
dc.descriptionClose-up of angels holding banner above the central niche and the lower part of the sculptural group which sits in the broken pediment; 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). Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 12/2/2007)en_US
dc.format.mediummarble; lapis lazuli; bronzeen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectsaintsen_US
dc.subjectIgnatius, of Loyola, Saint, 1491-1556en_US
dc.subjectBaroqueen_US
dc.titleCappella di Sant'Ignazioen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A2-I-R-G-2-F1en_US
vra.culturalContextItalianen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling) carving (processes) oil painting (technique)en_US
vra.worktypesepulchral chapelen_US
vra.worktypetomben_US
dc.contributor.displayAndrea Pozzo (Italian interior designer, 1642-1709)en_US


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