Il Gesù. Giacomo da Vignola and Giacomo della Porta.

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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

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  • 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!

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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

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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==

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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

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Learning Objective

1st. Southern Baroque Church

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Themes

Place of worship

Religion

Architecture

Propaganda

Site-specific

Status

Commemoration

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