page_title: Andrea Pozzo
section_title: Other works of art
hierarchical_section_title: Andrea Pozzo / Biography / Call to Rome / Other works of art
caption_attribution_description: Jesuit Church Vienna, &#160;Austria Deutsch: Deckenfresko: Scheinkuppel English: Fresco with Trompe l'oeil &#160; This media shows the protected monument with the number 119587 in Austria. (Commons, de, Wikidata)
context_page_description: Andrea Pozzo was an Italian Jesuit brother, Baroque painter and architect, decorator, stage designer, and art theoretician.
  Pozzo was best known for his grandiose frescoes using the technique of quadratura to create an illusion of three-dimensional space on flat surfaces. His masterpiece is the nave ceiling of the Church of Sant'Ignazio in Rome. Through his techniques, he became one of the most noteworthy figures of the Baroque period. He is also noted for the architectural plans of Ljubljana Cathedral, inspired by the designs of the Jesuit churches Il Gesù and S. Ignazio in Rome.
context_section_description: Meanwhile he continued painting frescoes and illusory domes in Turin, Mondovì, Modena, Montepulciano and Arezzo. In 1681 he was asked by Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany to paint his self-portrait for the ducal collection (now in the Uffizi in Florence). This oil on canvas has become a most original self-portrait. It shows the painter in a diagonal pose, showing with his right index finger his illusionist easel painting (a trompe-l'œil dome, perhaps of the Badia church in Arezzo) while his left hand rests on three books (probably alluding to his not-yet published treatises on perspective). The painting was sent to the duke in 1688. He also painted scenes from the life of St Stanislaus Kostka in the saint's rooms of the Jesuit novitiate of Sant'Andrea al Quirinale in Rome.
caption: Fresco with trompe l'œil dome painted on low vaulting, Jesuit Church, Vienna, Austria
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