2 / Dreams and Visions
| Artist / Origin |
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, 1598–1680)
Region: Europe
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|---|---|
| Date |
1647–52
Period: 1400 CE - 1800 CE
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| Material |
Marble, stucco, and gilt bronze
Medium: Sculpture
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| Dimensions | H: 11 ft. 6 in. (3.5 m.) |
| Location | Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, Italy |
| Credit | Courtesy of SCALA/Art Resource, NY |
expert perspective
| Edward J. SullivanProfessor of Fine Arts, New York University |
expert perspective
“backThe instance of a single image that appears time and time again in multiple artists’ work is also something that fascinates me. For example, the saint in ecstasy. Bernini, who was greatly admired by many of the Spanish artists who went to Italy and saw his works, is perhaps the quintessential example of a seventeenth-century Baroque creator of ecstasies in art. And the most outstanding of his creations of ecstasy is, I think, the sculptural group that is created to observe the ecstasy of Saint Teresa. Saint Teresa had reverberations all across Europe in the later half of the seventeenth century.”
