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Sant' Ignazio di Loyola; Church of Saint Ignatius Loyola Other Title(s) Sant' Ignazio di Loyola; Church of Saint Ignatius Loyola Title Sant'Ignazio di Loyola Record Type work Type of Work Architecture; painting Creator (Artist/Architect) Grassi, Orazio (1583-1654) Algardi, Alessandro (1598-1654) Pozzo, Andrea (1642-1709) Date 1626-1650 Location Italy; Rome; Campus Martius Style Baroque Period 17th c Culture Italian Description/Notes Dedicated to Saint Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)" Designed by Grassi, a Jesuit priest, architect and mathematician. Facade by Algardi. Piazza in front of the church and the two flanking palaces are from the 18th century. [see: http://roma.katolsk.no/ignazio.htm ] Dramatic illusionistic fresco in the nave and the trompe l'oeil dome are the work of another Jesuit, Andrea Pozzo, S.J. from 1685. Rights - Deposited Image Charles K. Growdon and Marcia Cohn Growdon View Facade UNR Accession # 06-MCG-0072-IT

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