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The central feature is the marble group of the Ecstasy of St. Teresa, shows the saint recumbent on a cloud & an angel piercing her heart; the sculpture is illuminated by a hidden window. Bernini depicted Teresa in an attitude of ecstatic abandon, a spiritual swoon caused by the love of God; also allusions to her levitation upon receiving the Eucharist at Mass, her mystic marriage to Christ and her miraculous death.
The central feature is the marble group of the Ecstasy of St. Teresa, shows the saint recumbent on a cloud & an angel piercing her heart; the sculpture is illuminated by a hidden window. Bernini depicted Teresa in an attitude of ecstatic abandon, a spiritual swoon caused by the love of God; also allusions to her levitation upon receiving the Eucharist at Mass, her mystic marriage to Christ and her miraculous death.
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- Creator: Gian Lorenzo Bernini Title: Cornaro Chapel; altar Work Type: sculpture Date: 1647-1652 Location: S. Maria della Vittoria (Rome, Italy)
- Creator: Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (Italian sculptor & draftsman, 1598-1680) Culture: Italian Title: The Baldacchino in Saint Peter's Basilica Date: 1624-1633 CE (creation) Location: Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy <br/>Holy See Style Period: Baroque Subject: sculpture
- Carlo Maderno (architect, ca. 1556 - 1629); Donato Bramante (architect, 1444-1514); Michelangelo Buonarroti (architect, 1475-1564); Pirro Ligorio (architect, ca.1500-1583) Culture: Italian Title: Saint Peter's Basilica Date: ca. 1506-1616 (creation) Location: Rome (Vatican City), Santa Sede (Holy See), Italy Piazza San Pietro Material: marble Technique: construction (assembling) Style Period: Renaissance