Andrea Pozzo’s Apotheosis of Saint Ignatius
The power of social media strikes again with its popularisation of Andrea Pozzo’s Apotheosis of Saint Ignatius, once a secret treasure of Rome. Since the instalment of a mirror to view the ceiling painting, influencers and the like have flocked to view this optical illusion of the ceiling opening up to the sky.
Katrina Grant, Research Associate in Visual Understanding at the Power Institute for Arts and Visual Culture at the University of Sydney, joined us this morning to remind us of the painting’s origins and importance.
