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Saint Joseph of Cupertino it was enough to repeat “Heaven, Heaven” to remain enraptured in ecstasy. The Saint was born in Cupertino on June 17, 1603 in the province of Lecce, in the then “Kingdom of Naples”.
This self-published volume is a valuable and natural successor to Grosso’s earlier The Man Who Could Fly: St. Joseph of Copertino and the Mystery of Levitation, which I reviewed very...
Almost four centuries after its creation, Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1652) remains the supreme emblem of religious visionary experience and the Baroque sensibility in art.
Bernini’s ensemble serves as this tangible image in which a religious experience can occur. Many art historians regard The Ecstasy of St. Teresa and the Cornaro Chapel as Bernini’s crowning achievements.
St. Joseph, patron saint of a happy death, became a principal subject of altarpieces around 1700. The composition, based on paintings by F. Trevisiani and P. Troger, is the template for the side altar altarpiece at the Parish Church of St. James, Brno, preserved to this day.
15 lis 2023 · The Ecstasy of St. Teresa is arguably the most controversial work created by the Roman Baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680). The debate surrounding the statue centers on the question: did the artist’s radically non-traditional depiction of Teresa’s transverberation transgress the boundaries of decorum as understood by ...
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