03 — ARTWORK
Il Gesù: Façade
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- Religious
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COMMENTARY
UNDERLINED TERMS ARE DEFINED IN THE GLOSSARY.
Work on the JesuitsThe Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic teaching order founded by St. Ignatius Loyola in 1534. The express purpose of the Jesuits was to fight heresy within the Church (they played a leading role in the Counter Reformation), and to spread the faith through missionary work in the many parts of the world recently discovered by Western explorers and colonists.' church in Rome, the Gesù, was begun in 1568 from <a href="#" onClick="w=window.open ('/support/plans/p/porta_g/gesu1.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=400,height=600');w.opener=this;w.focus();return false">plans by Vignola,</a> but Giacomo della Porta's design for the façadethe front or principal face of a building, especially one elaborately constructed; a blind façade is a façade that is purely decorative and does not relate to the structure of the building. from 1571 moved in a different stylistic direction. His frontage, with its aediculas, is a classic example of the Counter-ReformationTerm in ecclesiastical history referring to the reform of the entire Church which was widely believed to be necessary as early as the late Middle Ages. Reform programs, such as those passed by the Councils of Constance (1414-1418) and Basle (1431-1437 and 1448) or the 5th Lateran Council (1512-1517), did not achieve any lasting results. Not until the Protestant Reformation were the Pope and Roman Curia forced to take specific action against abuse of position, declining moral standards, the selling of indulgences and excesses in the worship of saints and relics. With the Laetere Jerusalem (1544) bull. Pope Paul III (1534-1549) was responsible for the convocation of the Council of Trent which, in three separate sessions between 15445 and 1563, started the process of inner reform in the Church. church façade, with broad navethe main interior space of a church building. It may have parallel aisles on each side, often separated from it by pillars, and is intersected by the transept, which cuts across it at the point where the choir begins. and flanking side chapels.
View the <a href="#" onClick="w=window.open ('/support/plans/p/porta_g/gesu.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=400,height=600');w.opener=this;w.focus();return false">ground plan</a> of Il Gesù, Rome.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Il Gesù: Façade by PORTA, Giacomo della},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/porta-giacomo-della-rdd8cab5ee17b36/il-ges-faade-r5b545762713324},
urldate = {2026-09-13},
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}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
