Il Gesù. Giacomo da Vignola and Giacomo della Porta.

Form

• 100% Baroque
• Older building
• Facade added in 1564
• Del Porta vault and dome
• Viignola did the overall space
• Broken into upper and lower
  • Lower:
  • 6 corinthian pillars
  • five of which are pilasters
  • One engafed colum by the doors
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  • Upper
  • Entablature with an enscription on it
  • Entablitiure pushes out toards you which causes movement towards the front
  • Below main window is a balstraude whic is a railing supported by balusters (molded shafts)
  • Shafts create moving diagonals and takoing up space with the sense of narrowing as you go which connects the two
  • Pope’s coat of arms is at the very top
• Visitors go into the body of the church, it is a simple basicica plan with a semi-circular naive
• No isles or radiating chapels and no transept
• Allow for seating
• Still have chapels along the side,, the whole area is used for traffic
• It provides worshippers with a wide uncluttered space
• Unifying everyone together
• Trancept is not beyong the naive
• Dome overhead
• Ornamentation, vivid color, drama and intensity, multi-media, classical elements
• They make these changes because it is a single use church

Interior:

• Art is moving into YOUR space, it is involving the viewer
• More sculptural figures moved into sceleing without time
• Dramatic flare
• Not a single place in the church that is dark
• All of attention focused on the apse (where mass is heald)
• Inside are fluted pilisters
• Barrel vaulted celling
• All expected from the rennesance but now with marble, jasper stone and gold!

Function

• Place of worship for the Catholics
• Propagrada to validate Catholicism
• Things were more than fine,m they were thriving
• Mother church of the jesuit order jesuit
• Constructed after the death of the justice of the St. Angecius Loyla
• Pray for the virgin Mary (Site specific)
• Patron was Carndal Farnese (Most rich and powerful Cardnals)
  • Grandson of Pope Paul III

Content

• Jesu means Jesus
• Di sotto in su- “from the bottom up”, ceiling paintings that have space that moves vertically
• Trompe L’oeil- literally “to trick the eye”, artword that is painted as an illusion to trick the view unto thinking it is real
• You can raise into the heavens at the speed of light
• Sunburst with a cross in the center (In the name of Jesus)
• Figures are drawn up towards the lgiht, assumed to be catholics going to heaven
• Figures in darker area are being rejected and pushed toward the bottom
• ==Triumphalism is the theme==

Context

Europe suffering from the War Of The Souls

• Church responded with counter-reformation
• Created a council which outlawed the buying of church possessions
  • Outlawed Pluralism- holding more than one church office
• Encouraged to promote religious orders conversation
• wanted to inspire the faithful
• Not simple, wanted the message to be clear but still amaze the viewer
• Church will use sign of wealth in God’s grace
• Churches became austentatious and expensive to build

Learning Objective

1st. Southern Baroque Church

Themes

Place of worship

Religion

Architecture

Propaganda

Site-specific

Status

Commemoration

Triumph of the Name of Jesus