Saint Teresa by Bernini
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Saint Teresa by Bernini
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa by Bernini, Rome.
Close view of one of Bernini's, and therefore of all the Baroque, masterpieces.
Saint Teresa in Ecstasy can be found at the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, in Rome. It was designed and sculpted by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and is generally considered one of the sculptural masterpieces of the High Roman Baroque. It pictures Teresa of Avila.
The two central sculptural figures of the swooning nun and the angel with the spear derive from an episode described by Teresa of Avila, a mystical cloistered Discalced Carmelite reformer and nun, in her autobiography. The group is illuminated by natural light, same as Bernini did with his sculpture of Blessed Ludovica, which filters through a hidden window in the dome above the rays. Teresa is lying on a cloud indicating this is a divine apparition.
Although Bernini's inspiration for his depiction of Teresa's mystical experience was her own description, there were many details Bernini simply supplied from his own artistic imagination, all with an aim of increasing the nearly transgressively sensual charge of the episode.
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October 2nd, 2017
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