Jesuit Church, Vienna
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The Jesuit Church, also known as the University Church, is a two-floor, double-tower church in Vienna, Austria. Influenced by early Baroque principles, the church was remodeled by Andrea Pozzo between
Jesuit Church in Vienna, Austria
Interior of Jesuit Church
Organ loft
Fresco with trompe-l'œil dome by Andrea Pozzo
Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective di sotto in sù and quadratura, is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which trompe-l'œil, perspective t
Jesuit Church, Vienna
…dedicated to Saints Ignatius Loyola and Francis Xavier. In 1703, Brother Andrea Pozzo, S.J., an architect, painter, and sculptor, and a master in the quadratura, was requested by Emperor Leopold I to redecorate the church. He added twin towers and reworked the façade in an early Baroque style with narrow…
The illusionistic perspective of Andrea Pozzo's trompe-l'œil dome at Sant'Ignazio (1685) creates an illusion of an actual architectural space on what is, in actuality, a slightly concave painted surface.
Andrea Mantegna, di sotto in sù ceiling fresco in the Camera degli Sposi of the Ducal palace, Mantua
Ceiling of the Jesuit Church, Vienna by Andrea Pozzo (1703)
The ceiling in Ljubljana Cathedral, painted by Giulio Quaglio the Younger in 1705–06