The church of St. Ignatius

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  • The church of St. Ignatius
  • Type: chiese
    Date: 1622 / 1722
    Period: Seicento (Was characterized by the Barocco of new artists like Bernini, Borromini)

    Address: Piazza S. Ignazio
    (Centro Storico)
    Zone: Rione IX Pigna

    Horary: from 7.30 am to 12.30 pm and from 3 pm to 7.15 pm
    Ticket: Gratis
    Internet: www.chiesasantignazio.org

  • The church of St. Ignazio was built in Baroque style. Its vast interior is inlaid with precious stones and marbles.

Location and History

Built in Baroque style between 1626 and 1650 in honour of St. Ignatius, who was the founder of the Society of Jesus (also called the Jesuits), the church functioned originally as Rectory church to the adjacent Collegio Romano, that moved in 1584 to a new larger building and became the Pontifical Gregorian University

Description

The church has a Latin cross plan with six side chapels. The building was inspired by the Jesuit mother church, the Church of the Gesù in Rome.
The most striking aspect of this church is the cupola which was never built and in its place,in 1685, Andrea Pozzo supplied a painting on canvas with a perspectival projection of a cupola. The effect is that of the appearance of a real three dimensional cupola.

  • Realization by

Orazio Grassi (Architetto) nella prima metà del XVII secolo realizzò il progetto.
Antonio Sasso (Architetto) subentrò al gesuita Orazio Grassi, architetto, matematico e astronomo, del quale ne continuò l’opera apportando alcune modifiche.
Carlo Maderno (Architetto)
Orazio Torriani (Architetto)
Paolo Maruscelli (Architetto)
Pietro Gagliardi (Pittore)

  • Commissioned by

Ludovico Ludovisi (Cardinale) fece costruire la chiesa nel 1626.
Alessandro Ludovisi said Pope Gregorio XV (Pontefice)

Alessandro Algardi
Andrea Pozzo
  • Andrea Pozzo
  • (Pittore)
    con l'altare del transetto destro, con l'affresco della volta centrale "Gloria di Sant'Ignazio" del 1685, il dipinto della falsa cupola e gli affreschi "Sant'Ignazio di Loyola come taumaturgo" databile nel periodo 1685 - 1688, "Assunzione della Madonna", "Sant'Ignazio di Loyola benedice san Francesco Saverio prima che parta per le missioni"
Camillo Rusconi
  • Camillo Rusconi
  • (Scultore)
    con quattro statue in stucco rappresentanti le Virtù nella cappella Ludovisi
Francesco Trevisani (Pittore) con la pala con il "Transito di San Giuseppe" del 1712 e il dipinto "San Luigi Gonzaga riceve la comunione da san Carlo Borromeo" databile nel periodo 1700 - 1712.
Pierre Legros

Other:

Bernardino Ludovisi (Scultore), Filippo Della Valle (Scultore), Francesco Manno (Pittore), Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari (Pittore), Jacques Courtois said Borgognone (Pittore), Ludovico Mazzanti (Pittore), Luigi Garzi (Pittore), Pierre De Lattre (Pittore), Pietro Bracci (Scultore), Stefano Mannot (Pittore), Stefano Pozzi (Pittore)

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