Italy. Rome. The Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola at Campus Martius. Trompe l'oeil ceiling fresco by Andrea Pozzo (1642-1709).

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Italy. Rome. The Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola at Campus Martius. Trompe l'oeil ceiling fresco by Andrea Pozzo (1642-1709). The saint welcomed into paradise by Christ and the Virgin Mary and surrounded by allegorical representations of all four continents (after 1685).

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