The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa -by Gian Lorenzo Bernini(1647–1652)

The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa


Subject of work:

the swooning nun and the angel with the spear derive 
from an episode described by Teresa of Avila,
in her autobiography, ‘The Life of Teresa of Jesus’ (1515–1582).
sculptural group described Her experience of religious ecstasy
in her encounter with the angel

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