High Altar (Detail), Sant'Ignazio, Rome

Posted by MadScientist (Düsseldorf, Germany) on 27 March 2008 in Art & Design.

This is the high altar of Sant'Ignazio, the church we've been visiting often in the last few days. Note the man in the aisle and get a feeling for the proportions.

Credits:
Baroque altarpieces and apse dome fresco: Andrea Pozzo, S.J.
Commision of design and construction: Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi.
Principal: Society of Jesus.

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Canon EOS 300D
1/8 second
F/3.5
ISO 1600
28 mm

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