Alienata da’ sensi: reframing Bernini’s S. Teresa

Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Ecstasy of St Teresa for the Cornaro Chapel (1647–52) is perhaps the artist’s most sensually charged creation, and the apparently physical nature of Teresa’s ecstasy is today even acknowledged in survey textbooks. Teresa herself opened the door to this reading when, in describ...

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Main Author: Andrea Bolland
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Open University 2015-02-01
Series:The Open Arts Journal
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Online Access:https://openartsjournal.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/oaj_issue4_bolland.pdf