Sant'Ignazio

Here is the church of S. Ignazio.  We went here for our first drawing class.  We mostly spent our time outsize sketching the piazza and the exterior of the church but I do have a few pictures of the interior!

 The interior is mainly made of marble and painted surfaces.

One thing that was really interesting was that the dome is much smaller than it actually appears and the center of the painted dome is off-centered from the real dome which makes it appear taller than it actually is.

Another optical illusion is the painted perspective on the ceiling.  All of the painted columns form a one-point perspective and if you stand in the right place on the floor, it seems like the ceiling goes on forever.