This is the church of Sant'Ignazio - St. Ignatius. The neat thing about this church are its frescos on the ceiling. In this first fresco, it appears that the ceiling is much taller than it actually is. Can you see the columns and windows along the sides of the photo? They are part of the painting!
These two photos are of the dome. When the church was built, they couldn't afford to build the dome. They hired the same artist, Andrea Pozzo. He painted a dome on a flat, round ceiling. He painted the dome in perspective so that when you stand in a certain place in the church, you cannot tell that the dome is fake. However, when you get right under the dome, it doesn't look right anymore. Unfortunately, I don't have a good photo of this. This is the same artist who painted the rooms of Saint Ignatius that I wrote about earlier.
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