Bernini’s Saint Theresa of Avila in Ecstasy

Cornaro Chapel, church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome.   1645 – 1652.   Marble, height of the group 11’6″.

 

 

 

 

 

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598 – 1680)

 

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