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| Keywords: Baciccio, The Triumph of the Name of Jesus, 1676-79.jpg Artwork Creator Baciccio Catalogue Entry This large and luminous bozzetto preparatory oil sketch provides a rare working document for the genesis of one of the most outstanding examples of Baroque ceiling decoration The Triumph of the Name of Jesus in the Gesù church in Rome The great sculptor and architect Bernini helped Baciccio secure the commission of decorating the barrel-vaulted mother church of the Jesuit order which had been consecrated in 1584 Although there is no written iconographic program the subject of the ceiling fresco was inspired by Saint Paul �s Epistle to the Philippians 2 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth In the bozzetto the full conceptual and visual thrust of the thundering biblical message is conveyed in the radiant and levitating clusters of saints and angels adoring the symbol of Christ while their damned counterparts including fallen angels heretics and vices hurtle into darkness below; these figures are blinded by and excluded from the vision of heaven that overwhelms the worshiper with its illusionary proximity seeming to open the ceiling to the sky above as one moves from darkness into light Gallery Label This luminous oil sketch is a rare surviving bozzetto working study for one of the most important illusionistic Baroque frescoes The Triumph of the Name of Jesus on the ceiling of Il Gesù in Rome Saints and cherubs bathed in radiating divine light adore the monogram of Jesus IHS while the souls of the damned plunge into darkness excluded from the vision of heaven that opens the ceiling to the sky above The conceit recalls the work of Gaulli �s mentor Bernini whose Cathedra Petri in Saint Peter �s also features a glowing IHS surrounded by fluttering putti Indeed his contemporaries said Bernini conceived the ceiling while his assistant Antonio Raggi executed the stucco angels at the corners of the imagined architectural framework Partially decipherable inscriptions on the three incised arcs on each side of the ceiling �visible only under infrared light �appear to indicate the locations for scaffolding providing evidence of the complexities involved in decorating the church 1676-79 Oil paper laid down on canvas Size cm 163 111 <br> frame Size cm 175 9 123 5 6 Institution Princeton University Art Museum European Art object history exhibition history credit line Museum purchase Fowler McCormick Class of 1921 Fund and Laura P Hall Memorial Fund accession number 2005-34 place of creation Princeton University Art Museum PD-old-100 1709 cite book Steward James Christen Princeton University Art Museum Handbook of the Collections Revised and Expanded Edition 2013 Princeton University Art Museum Princeton NJ 978-0943012414 2nd 203 cite web The Triumph of the Name of Jesus 2005-34 http //artmuseum princeton edu/collections/objects/45004 Princeton University Art Museum European paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum 1676 Paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum 1676 European art in the Princeton University Art Museum 1676 Ceiling of Chiesa del Gesù Rome Uploaded with UploadWizard | ||||
