Triumph of the Name of Jesus

The Triumph of the Name of Jesus is a ceiling fresco by Giovanni Battista Gaulli, known as Baciccio, located in the church of the Gesù in Rome. This masterpiece of Baroque decorative painting was executed between 1678 and 1679.1

Baciccio, a leading Roman Baroque painter, was influenced by artists like Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Correggio. In the Gesù fresco, he combined ecstatic religious figures with a sensual rendering of faces, all organized with masterful use of light and shadow. The church itself, designed by Giacomo da Vignola, became a model for many Catholic churches during the Baroque period.21