ST. IGNATIUS

The great cycle of paintings of St. Ignatius is the masterpiece of Andrea Pozzo, who here has painted the paintings of the apse, the arch and the vault of the apse, the pendentives, the false dome and the vault of the nave.

Andrea Pozzo, born in Trento in 1642, died in Vienna in 1709, already in 1665 he entered the Company of Jesus as a lay member and the Company will be to lead and inspire his artistic production.

Pozzo was a great master of perspective and its illusionistic effects, at St. Ignatius he gave proof of his extraordinary technique in the service of a fertile imagination.

On the ceiling of the nave we find the application of his studies on perspective, actually, in the flat ceiling of the Church, Pozzo painted structures that create an illusion of depth to guide the visitor's eye to the center of the composition, in which it is represented the spirit of two centuries of history of the Jesuits, whose mission in four continents is represented by allegories of Africa, America, Asia and Europe.

The navigable photo below will help you explore the cycle of paintings by Andrea Pozzo:

Apse	Vault

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