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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.
Notice how the trompe l’oeil painting on the low arched ceiling aspires to turn the little church into a lofty Gothic cathedral.
As two soldiers mounted on a motorcycle and cab push inexorably into the frigid landscape--with flour substituting for snow--there's an uneasy mix of the trompe l'oeil and the trumped up.
No document links them, but shared motifs (a woman weighing gold, a trompe l'oeil curtain drawn just so) in their paintings--especially from a magic moment around 1658--suggest an intimacy akin to such famous partnerships as Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, or Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
Inside, on the first floor, is a museum of typical Florentine domestic life from the 14th to 16th centuries, with furniture, utensils, and ceramics — the most attractive are in the Sala dei Pappagalli (Parrots’ Hall) with its trompe l’œil tapestries frescoed on the walls.