Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1642-1709 Italian painter, architect and stage designer. He was a brilliant quadratura painter, whose most celebrated works, such as the decoration of the church of S Ignazio in Rome, unite painting, architecture and sculpture in effects of overwhelming illusionism and are among the high-points of Baroque church art. He was a Jesuit lay brother and produced his most significant work for the Society of Jesus. This affiliation was fundamental to his conception of art and to his heightened awareness of the artist's role as instrumental in proclaiming the faith and stimulating religious fervour. The methods he used were those of Counter-Reformation rhetoric, as represented in Ignatius Loyola's Spirited Exercises (1548).   Related Paintings of Andrea Pozzo :. | The Castle of Muiden in Winter | An Excavation | The Martyrdom of St.Agatha | Schoolboy | The Bewitched Mill |
Related Artists:
Angiolo Tommasi
painted On the river Arno in 1883-1885
John Melhuish Strudwick
1849-1937 British John Melhuish Strudwick Gallery
Edwin Deakin
1838-1923