!!!Pozzo, Andrea

b. Trento (Italy), Nov. 30, 1642, 
d. Vienna, Aug. 31, 1709, architect, sculptor, painter of the late 
Baroque, Jesuit lay-brother. Leading expert and theorist of 
architectural illusionist painting; 1702 called from Rome to Vienna by 
Emperor Leopold I; his overall view of architecture, sculpture and 
painting was for a long time exemplary in Austria.

!Works
Vienna: baroque reconstruction of the Jesuit Church, 1703-1707; 
high altar pictures in Jesuit Church and Franciscan Church, 1707; 
ceiling fresco in the Palace Liechtenstein in the Rossau, 1708.

!Literature
B. Kerber, A. P., 1971; H. Karner, Zur Rezeption des 
scheinarchitekton. Werkes von A. P. in den habsburg. Laendern 
noerdlich der Alpen im 18. Jh., doctoral thesis, 2 vols., Vienna 
1995; A. Battisti (ed.), A. P., %%sup 2/%1998.



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