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 ...

"Ecstasy of Saint Teresa" (1652) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Wikimedia Commons) The exhibition, Cháirez has explained, was "an exercise in which I make a comparison between religious ecstasy and ...

At the exhibit’s opening on Jan. 23, he told me two central touchstones led his curation: the visual spark of glowing enthrallment in Bernini’s sculpture Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, and the core ...

“Ecstasy” is a tricky word. It will suggest dramatic swooning raptures of the kind classically pictured in Critchley’s cover image of Bernini’s famous sculpture of St Teresa. But we are invited to ...

(1930) and "Sainte Therèse d'Avila" (1930), a transposition of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's baroque sculpture "The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa." Interest in Art Deco in the 1960s brought Lempicka to an ...

After a while, I finally put my finger on the spine of the thin paperback I bought so long ago, with Bernini’s Ecstasy of St. Teresa on the cover. I flip through its pages, noticing where I have ...

You focus on a sort of celebrity levitator at the time, Saint Teresa of Avila, in Spain. But you emphasize that her notoriety also put her at great risk. Would you talk about that? Within Catholic ...