halfway between the Pantheon and Fontana di Trevi, is the Church of San Ignacio de Loyola, built in 1626 and dedicated to the newly canonized Ignatius Loyola, one of the founders of the Jesuit order.
is located in the Piazza di San Ignazio `t, where the curious can also see buildings housing Guardianship Unit Artistic Heritage of the Carabinieri, the Italian equivalent of our Guardia Civil.
What highlight of this church are its fresh, especially that of the nave, representing San Ignacio spreading the word of God for the world.
appear painted on a flat roof columns that look real and give the impression that the nave has one other plant, whose ceiling is the sky itself to that address souls guided by several saints.
correctly To watch this fresh perspective, must be placed at a point in the middle of the nave marked with a brass disk.
The other highlight is its false dome painted on a huge canvas and depending on where we stand, we'll see how it changes the perspective of it, in a game of visual illusions drawn in a great by its author, artist Andrea Pozzo, who also Previous fresco, The Apotheosis of St. Ignatius.
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