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The church of the Gesù, severe and relatively discreet on its own square west of the Piazza Venezia, was a major element in the Jesuits’ Counter-Reformation campaign.
For a sense of the historic neighborhood’s old splendor, start on Piazza Gesù Nuovo, with its characteristically extravagant Baroque Immacolata column (guglia) in the center.
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.