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Bernini’s Ecstasy of St Teresa
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The saint here is being pierced by a smirking angel’s lance, and is Bernini at his theatrical best. He sets this religious ecstasy on a stage flanked by opera boxes from which members of the commissioning Cornaro family look on (see Santa Maria della Vittoria).
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