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 :. | Vor dem Spiegel | Jerken Down | Galician Washerwomen | St Jacobus defeats the Moors. | Calumny |
Related Artists:
Johann Georg von Hamilton
1672--1737
Tito Lessi
Italian artist, 1858-1917
Johann Heinrich Hintze
painted Berlin, Altes Museum von der Schlossfreiheit aus in 1832