ABSTRACT
In 1693, Andrea Pozzo published the first volume of his treatise, Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum, a pedagogical demonstration of his perspective drawing method and projection techniques employed in creating interior spatial illusions, quadrature. Pozzo was concerned with the embodied experience of illusion, with a seamless transition between the real and the fictitious, a joining of truth and illusion at a fixed point within Cartesian space. Thirteen years prior to the publication of his advocation of a single point of view, Pozzo created the hallway to the rooms of St. Ignatius in the Casa Professa in Rome, in which he experimented with overlapping perspective illusions combined with frontal presentations of framed images. In the hallway to the rooms of St. Ignatius, Pozzo invited the viewer to participate in the room, to walk around the space in order to view the layers of the illusion and counter-illusion. In keeping with the contemporary debate, Pozzo redefined perspective as a "Counterfeiting of the Truth".
