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Baciccio, Caduta degli Angeli Ribelli Gaulli’s Triumph of the Name of Jesusthe Fall of the Damned

Giovan Battista Gaulli Il Baciccio - nicknamed Il Baciccia/o (diminutivo di Giovan Battista in genovese) (Genova, 1639 – Roma, 1709) Caduta degli Angeli Ribelli - Fall of the Rebel Angels, parte dell'affresco della volta: "Trionfo del Nome di Gesù" "The Triumph of the Name of Jesus" ceiling fresco 1676-1679 Chiesa del Gesù, Roma "Nel nome di Gesù ogni ginocchio si pieghi nei cieli, sulla terra e sotto terra" (Filippesi 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." (Philippians 2, 10,) (...) The figures kneeling in prayer in the central band are drawn up into Heaven by this light. Supported by angels, the clouds on which they kneel darken underneath, as simultaneously the name of God banishes sinners down into Hell. In the darkness beneath and to the right, a writhing mass of the heretical and the damned hurtle towards the viewer in the nave. At the top right of this group the figure of Vanity is identifiable by her peacock, and by her side Heresy is shown with a head of snakes. These figures are cast over and beyond the gilded ‘frame’ in a mass of painted stucco, interacting with the gilded stucco of the ‘earthly’ realm. They even cast their (illusionistic) shadows over the church ceiling, emphasising the blocking of the divine light. The project, for it cannot be simply described as a painting, is realized using the sotto in su (literally meaning “below upwards”) perspective so beloved of artists of the Baroque. Here this sotto in su serves to emphasise the upward movement of the just towards the brilliant light. This vortex has as its apex the monogram of the Jesuits, towards which the just are drawn, and away from which the damned are repelled (...) https://understandingrome.wordpress.c... foto e filmato di Luigi Manfredi 21 Febbraio 2026    • Giovan Battista Gaulli il Baciccio, Trionf...