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They come together in the palace’s Salone or Great Hall with Pietro da Cortona’s dazzling illusionist ceiling fresco, Triumph of Divine Providence.
Within the cloister, in the north gallery, is a striking fresco of the Triumph of Death (1360) showing how a humble person and an aristocrat face the same destiny.
Inside, Andrea Pozzo (himself a Jesuit priest and designer of the saint’s tomb at the Gesù) has painted a superb trompe l’oeil ceiling fresco (1685) depicting St. Ignatius’ entry into paradise.
This may be par for the course of most artistic careers; the distinction here is that he has repeated himself in ever more exalted and expensive media (reflective metals, Japanese ceramics, fresco), which just gild the funk, sapping its life.
Don’t miss the upstairs chapel for Benozzo Gozzoli’s 15th-century fresco of the Journey of the Magi to Bethlehem.