Triumph of the Name of Jesus (aceiling)
Baciccio (Giovanni Battista Gaulli)
1676–1679
Fresco
Free
15min
Church of the Gesù (Il Gesù)
Piazza del Gesù, 00186 Roma
The supreme Baroque illusionistic ceiling — painted figures spill over the frame and cascade in 3D stucco down the real architecture, completely dissolving the boundary between painting and physical space. Bernini oversaw the project. The template for every Baroque church ceiling in Europe from Vienna to Latin America. Free.


