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PERCEPTION AND ART
Andrea Pozzo, Ascension of St.
Ignatius into Paradise (Trompe
lΓÇÖoeil ceiling fresco, S. Ignazio,
Rome.)
If visitors to the Church of
SantΓÇÖ Ignazio in Rome stand at a
place on the floor marked by a
yellow marble disk and look up
at the ceiling of the nave, they
will see a three-dimensional
panorama of arches supported
by columns, windows, and sky,
with human figures arranged in
various positions throughout,
some of them seemingly
suspended in midair. The
spectators will know that this
scene is a painting, because the
human figures appear lifeless,
but it looks real, so real that it
is virtually impossible to tell
where the architecture of the
church ends and the painting
begins. The painting, shown to
the left, was made by Fra
Andrea Pozzo at the end of the
seventeenth century. It is the
best-known example of a
trompe lΓÇÖoeil production and is
all the more remarkable for
having been painted on a
hemicylindrical rather than a
flat surface.