After one vision, Teresa recounted how a handsome angel pierced her heart with a flaming lance, causing both pain and rapture. The baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s “Ecstasy of Saint ...

The content is produced solely by The Conversation. “The Ecstasy of St Teresa of Avila” (1647-52) by 17th-century Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini is one of the most famous images of the ...

In “The Ecstasy of St. Teresa,” 17th-century sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini captured Teresa in the throes of a Christ-fueled passion: Golden rays pour over the figure of the robed woman, her mouth ...

Saint Teresa of Avila continues to fascinate both ... her image has been immortalised in masterpieces such as "The Ecstasy" by the Italian sculptor Bernini and a portrait by Rubens or on this ...

Seldom has a playwright combined so many big ideas so inexpertly as Begonya Plaza has in Teresa’s Ecstasy ... has come to Barcelona to research Saint Teresa of Ávila, a 16th-century nun ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Beware of having unintended spiritual epiphanies. Begonya Plaza's new play, "Teresa's Ecstasy," is about the unexpected influence of St. Teresa of Avila, a 16th-century Carmelite nun, ...

The content is produced solely by The Conversation. “The Ecstasy of St Teresa of Avila” (1647-52) by 17th-century Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini is one of the most famous images of the ...