The exhibition wants to demonstrate the versatile personality of the Jesuit, who was an active painter, architect, manager of ephemeral apparatuses and theorist of perspective science and architecture and to link him with the cultural environments, in which he worked and hung out with. This is the first monographic exhibition dedicated to the painting activity of this undisputed protagonist of the baroque civilization and spirituality. The exhibition is focused on the interesting and still not so famous juvenile production of Andrea Pozzo in Lombardy, Piedmont and Liguria, before he moved to Rome.
The selected works (some of which have been added only recently to the catalog of the artist), permits to catch the extraordinary modernity achieved by Pozzo in his pieces of art in northern Italy between the seventh and the eighth decade of the 16th century. His creative and theatrical language, dignified by spectacular components and inventions, marked an important turning point in the figurative art field of that geographical area. Pozzo art production became an unavoidable reference point for the succeeding generations painters.

Pieces of art belonging to the artist's Trentino period ( the maturity season) have been displayed at the exhibition as well . The exhibition starts with a sort of documentary on the biographical ups and down of Andrea Pozzo's life, displaying two of his famous self-portraits, which were painted in two different periods of his life.

The exhibition is made up of about 40 works among altar pieces, private devotion art, sketches, which comes from places of worship, museums, private collection in Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria and Trentino. It will be possible to admire the high quality works, usually stored in little accessible places, and to compare them following a chronological scanning in order to piece together the extraordinary evolution of Pozzo 's pictorial style during the eighth decade of the 16th century, from the very beginning of his career, to the spectacular compositions of the late seventy years.

Sketches and autographed copies of some work will be displayed together with the original and final version of the same pieces of art, in order to explain the working procedure of the painter. Over the years he was used to repeat those lucky subjects, which were highly appreciated by purchasers, making only small modifications to them.

Thematic readings along the exhibition route will help the visitor to understand the key role played by Andrea Pozzo in illustrating the iconography topics and the new devotion art developed in the period of the Counter-Reformation. The Jesuit played an important role in the elaboration of the iconography of the Jesus Company Saints, Sant' Ignazio and San Francisco Saverio - the two protagonists of some meaningful altar pieces displayed at the exhibition - and in the new devotional art pieces, which were spread in the catholic Europe after the Council of Trento.

The exhibition course ends showing some of the works left at Museum Diocesano Tridentino from the church of Saint Francisco Saverio. They are four perspective pieces of art - two of which have been restored on the occasion of this exhibition event - and which date back to the late phase of his art production, when he was in Vienna.

During his stay in the imperial city, Pozzo kept his business ties with some purchaser from Trento, but above all with the Trento Jesuit congregation, where the famous "Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum" treaty was stored. It is about a very important text that caused quite a stir throughout Europe in the first half of the 17th century, because it was considered a real reference book for perspective painters and designers at that time. Through the missions and the Jesuits evangelization action in Central Europe, Latin America and China, Pozzo's belief was spread worldwide and Perspectiva treaty was translated into German, French, Greek, Spanish and even into Chinese.