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Pozzo, Andrea
© Copyright Andrea Pozzo, engraving by G. B. Cecchi 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. Ländern nördlich der Alpen im 18. Jh., doctoral thesis, 2 vols., Vienna 1995; A. Battisti (ed.), A. P., 21998.
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