Empire of the ant: Andrea Pozzo

As part of the National Gallery of Art film series "Empire of the Eye," this excerpt illustrates two of the most remarkable illusionistic ceiling paintings in Italian Renaissance Art. Commissioned in 1684 to paint both an illusionistic dome and ceiling vault in the church of S. Ignazio in Rome, Andrea Pozzo documented invaluable sketches and perspective treatises as he worked. These rare documents were scanned and imported as templates to recreate digital models of his work. CGI was completed using AliaslWavefront Maya 3.0 and Adobe After Effects 5.5 running on Mac OS X. Copyright held by creator.