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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; Baroque Architecture Creator (Artist/Architect) Grassi, Orazio (1583-1654) Algardi, Alessandro (1598-1654) Pozzo, Andrea (1642-1709) Date 1688-1690 Location Italy; Rome; Campus Martius Style Baroque Period 17th c Culture Italian Description/Notes The nave fresco is the Apotheosis of St. Ignatius (St. Ignatius being welcomed to heaven by the Virgin Mary and Christ. Famed for its dramatic illusionism in which the ceiling appears to open to the heavens. On the mathematics of the illusionism of this ceiling, see: http://library.thinkquest.org/3257/illusion.html#ignazio The dome is also completely an illusion. Painted on a canvas which measures 17m across, it is best seen from a spot marked on the floor of the church by a bronze plaque. The monks whose church and monastary were next to Sant'Ignatius complained that the planned dome would block their light [a complaint which may have had has much to do with jealousies and politics as it did with the realities of light (Dr. R.J.Betts).] The solution was a trompe l'oeil dome, Pozzo's illusion of a dramatic dome. Rights - Deposited Image Charles K. Growdon and Marcia Cohn Growdon View Right half, ground level of facade UNR Accession # 06-MCG-0075-IT

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