| dc.coverage.spatial | Site: Sant'Ignazio (Rome, Lazio, Italy) | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | ca. 1685-1694 (creation) | en_US |
| dc.creator | Pozzo, Andrea | en_US |
| dc.date | 1685-1694 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-07T20:21:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-05-07T20:21:13Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1685-1694 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 214685 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 200 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/122052 | |
| dc.description | Detail of banner upheld by putti and angels on the end wall (before the crossing): the words of Christ from Luke: I am come to send fire on the earth; "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. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 12/2/2007) | en_US |
| dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
| dc.subject | allegorical | en_US |
| dc.subject | cycles or series | en_US |
| dc.subject | saints | en_US |
| dc.subject | Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint, 1491-1556 | en_US |
| dc.subject | Baroque | en_US |
| dc.title | Apotheosis of Saint Ignatius | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Dome, Apse and Ceiling Frescoes, Sant'Ignazio | en_US |
| dc.type | image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
| dc.identifier.vendorcode | 1A1-PAN-SI-C7 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | Italian | en_US |
| vra.technique | oil painting (technique) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | mural painting (visual work) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | Andrea Pozzo (Italian painter, 1642-1709) | en_US |
