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The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa

Gian Lorenzo Bernini · 1652
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Bernini's marble of the moment Teresa of Avila describes in her autobiography: an angel piercing her heart with a golden arrow. The Cornaro Chapel at Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome is the Counter-Reformation in three dimensions.

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