Bernini: Sculpting sainthood

Genevieve Warwick

Bernini: Sculpting sainthood

Edinburgh College of Art

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Abstract

This essay springs from a centenary lecture given at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, to complement the exhibition on Passion and Persuasion: Baroque Saints. As the exhibition treated largely prints and paintings, including some depictions of St Teresa of Avila, the essay-lecture gives an in-depth view of Bernini's Cornaro Chapel and his representation of St Teresa's ecstasy in the sculptural medium, with attention to the devotional ritual context out of which this work emerged, and particularly that of Teresa's canonisation and subsequent saint-day mass.

Original language	English
Journal	Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review
Volume	104
Issue number	416
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2015
Event	Public centenary lecture at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, with podcast - Ireland, Dublin, Ireland Duration: 19 Mar 2015 → 19 Mar 2015

Keywords

Bernini
St Teresa
Jesuit
Catholic Reform and Art

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Bernini: Sculpting sainthood

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