# Festival decor [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [POZZO, Andrea]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Engraving ## Commentary The picture shows Andrea Pozzo's "Sitientes venite ad aquas" \(Thirsty, come to the waters\), festival decor for Il Gesù, with representation of the apse after Baciccio. It was published in Pozzo's "Perspectiva pictorum architectorum" \(Rome, 1698\). The illusionistic expansion of spaces with painted mock architecture in Baroque ceiling and wall decorations would never have attained perfection had it not been based on the painting of theatre sets and ephemeral decorations for all manner of religious and secular celebrations developed since the Renaissance. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of the Jesuits' Missionary Work \(detail\)]() - [Allegory of the Jesuits' Missionary Work \(detail\)]() - [Allegory of the Jesuits' Missionary Work \(detail\)]() - [Allegory of the Jesuits' Missionary Work \(detail\)]() - [Allegory of the Jesuits' Missionary Work \(detail\)]() - [Altar of St Ignatius Loyola]() - [Altar of St Ignatius Loyola]() - [Antechoir vault: Vision of St Ignatius at the Battle of Pamplona]() - [Apotheosis of St Francis Xavier]() - [Apse calotte: St Ignatius Helping the Sick and Poor]() - [Apse calotte: St Ignatius Helping the Sick and Poor]() - [Deeds of Hercules and his Apotheosis]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()