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I “teatri sacri” di Andrea Pozzo per i Gesuiti: storia e ricostruzione digitale della chiesa di Sant’Ignazio a Mazara

2023

The contribution, a combination of history and representation, analyses and proposes a hypothesis of virtual reconstruction of the design of the church of Sant’Ignazio that Andrea Pozzo drew up in the early eighteenth century for the Jesuits of Mazara. The exceptional nature of the edifice in the Sicily of the time lies in its transverse oval hall with a columned “serliana” ambulatory and a circular presbytery covered by a structure with scenic features traceable to Pozzo’s experiments in quadratura. The church no longer has its roof, which collapsed in the 1930s, of which there is insufficient historical iconography. The images shot with the aid of a drone and the extant fragments facilita…