Giovanni Battista Gaulli and The Triumph of the Name of Jesus at the Gesu
- Format:
- Dissertation
- Year:
- 2014
- University:
- California State University, Los Angeles
- Thesis type:
- Master's Thesis
- Place published:
- Los Angeles
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- Abstract:
Giovanni Battista Gaulli (il Baciccio) relocated to Rome at the age of eighteen after an outbreak of the plague decimated his entire family. Little is known about his early artistic training; however, the young artist already demonstrated an aptitude for figural painting and colore. Gaulli developed a friendship with the Florentine master Gian Lorenzo Bernini who essentially became his promoter. In 1672, Father General Oliva, based on the advice and assurances of his friend and artistic advisor Bernini, commissioned Gaulli to decorate the Jesuit Mother Church in Rome. The overall composition is a spectacularly executed schematic based on the theme of "Heavenly Glory" from scenographic sets for the Devotion of the Forty Hours, and a pictorial exposition of Bernini's complex spatial vision, the bel composto. Gaulli's trionfo marks the culmination of an aerial perspective tradition rooted in the Renaissance and the apex of Italian Baroque illusionistic painting.
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- ISBN:
- 97813038583691303858363
- Comment:
- Advisor: Anderson, Paul