Jesuit Church

The Jesuit Church is a two-floor, double-tower church in Vienna, Austria. Influenced by means of early Baroque principles, the church changed into revamped via Andrea Pozzo among 1703 and 1705. The Jesuit Church is positioned on Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz, right now adjacent to the old University of Vienna buildings.

The Jesuit Church changed into constructed among 1623 and 1627 on the website online of an in advance chapel, on the time whilst the Jesuits merged their personal college with the University of Vienna's philosophy and theology school. The emperor broke floor for both university and church, with the church itself dedicated to Saints Ignatius Loyola and Francis Xavier. In 1703, Brother Andrea Pozzo, S.J., an architect, painter, and sculptor, and a master within the quadratura, turned into requested through Emperor Leopold I to redesign the church. He delivered twin towers and reworked the facade in an early Baroque style with narrow horizontal and vertical sections. The design of the windows, slender niches and the small central a part of the facade deviate from the Baroque style of the towers.