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The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (also known as Saint Teresa in Ecstasy; Italian: L'Estasi di Santa Teresa or Santa Teresa in estasi) is a sculptural altarpiece group in white marble set in an elevated aedicule in the Cornaro Chapel of the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome. [1]
Saint Teresa was the inspiration for one of Bernini's most famous sculptures, The Ecstasy of St. Teresa (mid-17th century) in Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome. [85] [web 20] St. Teresa was painted in 1819–20 by François Gérard, a French neoclassical painter. [web 21]
Ecstasy of St. Teresa by Heinrich Meyring (1697), Church of the Scalzi. Heinrich Meyring/ Heinrich Meiering (1628 – 11 February 1723) was a German sculptor, active mainly in Venice and the Veneto. He is also known as Enrico Merengo or Arrigo Merengo. Meyring was born in Rheine, Westphalia.
Santa Maria della Vittoria (English: Saint Mary of Victory, Latin: S. Mariae de Victoria) is a Catholic titular minor basilica and Discalced Carmelite conventual church dedicated to Our Lady of Victories in Rome, Italy, famously the home of Gian Lorenzo Bernini‘s masterpiece the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa.
Pope Francis proclaimed Mother Teresa of Calcutta a saint of the Roman Catholic Church on Sunday, 19 years after her death.
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With her portraits of red-lipped women painted like sculptures in resplendent jewel tones, the Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka has posthumously become an Art Deco icon.
Decoration of Chapels and Nave of St. Peter's Basilica: St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City 1645–1648 Sculpture Marble 47 [60] Ecstasy of Saint Teresa: Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome: 1647–1652 Sculpture Marble Life-size figures 48 [61] Cornaro-Kapelle (in German) Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome: 1647 ...