Extracted from publication Il senso immerso
Il soffitto barocco della chiesa di Sant’Ignazio come ambiente proto-immersivo
DOI: 10.53136/979122181652519
Pages: 419-442
Publication date: February 2025
Publisher: Aracne
SSD:
M-FIL/04 M-FIL/05
Although Andrea Pozzo’s fresco in the vault of the church of St. Ignatius in Rome has often been evoked as a site of elaboration for contemporary image effects such as 3D cinema and virtual reality, it has never been deeply studied in these terms. This article aims to investigate and criticise this hypothesis that sees the fresco as a set of enunciative and phenomenological strategies that allow it to be defined as proto-immersive. In particular, we analyse the dialectic of double movement, upward and downward thrust, that certain collective figures of “contrapposto” stage to produce the bodily experience of the viewer-believer.
