Pozzo, Saint Ignatius Chapel, Il Gesù발음듣기
Pozzo, Saint Ignatius Chapel, Il Gesù
Pozzo, Saint Ignatius Chapel, Il Gesù
(music) [Man1] This is the Saint Ignatius Chapel, Saint Ignatius of Loyola and in his memory, before he'd actually been proclaimed a saint fully, the church was dedicated and then when he was beatified and then canonized in 1622, another entire church was built with his name, Sant'Ignazio.
[Beth] nearby Man1: This chapel celebrates his relationship to God.
It's an explosion of light, precious material, gold, lapis lazuli, silver, bronze and precious marbles.
What we see is basically a painting enshrined in a great tabernacle and the painting shows St. Ignatius before God himself.
He's kneeling in his black habit before the figure of Christ and he's holding a banner, bright red banner with the name of "Jesus" on it, as it were presenting or supplicating before God to be admitted to Heaven and the most extraordinary thing about this, is that it's actually a theatrical mechanism.
In very recent years, this has been restored and is functioning once again and generally speaking at 5:30 p.m. daily, a painting at the combination of a 15-20 minute sound and light show lowers itself.
The painting slides down gradually like a piece of theatrical machinery into the ground below the altar.
[Beth] Wow. statue of Saint Ignatius.
It's as if to say he has now died and gone to heaven and above the whole figure, (inaudible 1:40) surrounded by angels is an image of the Holy Trinity.
So this is Baroque scenery, baroque theatricality at its finest and that they called it a macchina back in those days, a machine.
[Man2] The entire tabernacle is, even on this dim day, is beautifully illuminated.
All of the incredibly reflective qualities of the gold, the semi-precious stones really reflecting light,
but if you look at the image itself, it's so interesting because below the main scene you have what's seemed like the presentation of the four main continents, Africa of the new world.
[Man1] The four corners of the world, as they called them then and in the church of Saint Ignatius, the church a few blocks from here,
we have a similar though much larger painting on the ceiling in fresco of that theme of Ignatius' work, the teaching and faith of the Jesuits extending to the four parts of the known world, as they called Africa.
[Beth] Reminds one that's the era of colonialism and a lot of the money that's coming to the church.
[Man] Indeed, colonialism and evangelization.
[Man] The statue that's behind is not the original statue, part of it is, but the great solid, silver and gold parts were melted down when Napolean invaded Italy, 1798, also to pay for the troops.
They also burned a lot of the tapestries in the Vatican, so they could get the precious gold and silver thread out of them.
[Man2] This was then remade in the early 19th century and it still stands as a piece of absolutely wonderful precious material.
I would add, that between the gilded, bronze shafts of those columns are lots of pieces [Beth] Hmm ...
It's one of the richest materials that we know.
It's still the most expensive color in painting.
Michael Angelo used it for painting The Last Judgement ground up.
It comes from Afghanistan, but it is also highly expensive.
It's three times the price of gold.
[Beth] Wow. [Beth] When the painting comes down and the sculpture is revealed, there's also musical accompaniment, right?
So, it's a very sensual experience. (music)
(music) [Man1] This is the Saint Ignatius Chapel, Saint Ignatius of Loyola and in his memory, before he'd actually been proclaimed a saint fully, the church was dedicated and then when he was beatified and then canonized in 1622, another entire church was built with his name, Sant'Ignazio.발음듣기
It's an explosion of light, precious material, gold, lapis lazuli, silver, bronze and precious marbles.발음듣기
What we see is basically a painting enshrined in a great tabernacle and the painting shows St. Ignatius before God himself.발음듣기
He's kneeling in his black habit before the figure of Christ and he's holding a banner, bright red banner with the name of "Jesus" on it, as it were presenting or supplicating before God to be admitted to Heaven and the most extraordinary thing about this, is that it's actually a theatrical mechanism.발음듣기
In very recent years, this has been restored and is functioning once again and generally speaking at 5:30 p.m. daily, a painting at the combination of a 15-20 minute sound and light show lowers itself.발음듣기
The painting slides down gradually like a piece of theatrical machinery into the ground below the altar.발음듣기
It's as if to say he has now died and gone to heaven and above the whole figure, (inaudible 1:40) surrounded by angels is an image of the Holy Trinity.발음듣기
So this is Baroque scenery, baroque theatricality at its finest and that they called it a macchina back in those days, a machine.발음듣기
All of the incredibly reflective qualities of the gold, the semi-precious stones really reflecting light,발음듣기
but if you look at the image itself, it's so interesting because below the main scene you have what's seemed like the presentation of the four main continents, Africa of the new world.발음듣기
[Man1] The four corners of the world, as they called them then and in the church of Saint Ignatius, the church a few blocks from here,발음듣기
we have a similar though much larger painting on the ceiling in fresco of that theme of Ignatius' work, the teaching and faith of the Jesuits extending to the four parts of the known world, as they called Africa.발음듣기
[Beth] Reminds one that's the era of colonialism and a lot of the money that's coming to the church.발음듣기
[Man] The statue that's behind is not the original statue, part of it is, but the great solid, silver and gold parts were melted down when Napolean invaded Italy, 1798, also to pay for the troops.발음듣기
They also burned a lot of the tapestries in the Vatican, so they could get the precious gold and silver thread out of them.발음듣기
[Man2] This was then remade in the early 19th century and it still stands as a piece of absolutely wonderful precious material.발음듣기
I would add, that between the gilded, bronze shafts of those columns are lots of pieces [Beth] Hmm ...발음듣기
[Beth] Wow. [Beth] When the painting comes down and the sculpture is revealed, there's also musical accompaniment, right?발음듣기
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