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

  • 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