Deep Space LIVE: Opening a Portal to Heaven: The Apotheosis of St. Ignatius

(Linz, March 7, 2011) Deep Space LIVE lets you take an eye-popping look at baroque trompe l’oeil painting. The high-definition focus will be on Andrea Pozzo’s spectacular frescoes on the ceiling of the Church of Saint Ignatius of Loyola at Campus Martius in Rome. Your guides on this journey of discovery into the history of art are two members of the Jesuit Order: Gernot Wisser, an architect and theologian who is currently Provincial Superior of Austria, and Johannes Herz. Read more

Ceiling fresco in Sant’Ignazio di Loyola

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