The lecture tries to answer the virulent question about the "Jesuit" of Jesuit art not in a long disproved "Jesuit style", but with regard to an aesthetics of liminality. The basis for this are first of all the spiritual exercises of Ignatius of Loyola, in particular the so-called "composition of space" (compositio loci) and the application of the senses (applicatio sensuum), which both operate with inner images of the imagination.