How to Make A Ceiling Disappear

Fra Andrea Pozzo, Glorification of Saint Ignatius, ceiling fresco in the nave of Sant’Ignazio, Rome, Italy, 1691–1694.
Despite dilatory ill-intentions
Triumph turns through transformation
Gimmick only goes so far
Transition requires remontoir
True to mood, even God must move
Paint perspective vaulting, unscrewed
As aestival awakens above, ere our eyes fall
So below, becoming blurs the lines for us all
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Diana, you pair paintings and poems well. I see things in the ekphrastic poems you’ve created with a different eye because of the pairing.