Made by Bernini, arguably the greatest artist of the Baroque era, between 1647 and 1652 the sculpture depicts Saint Teresa of Àvila, also known as Teresa de Jesús (1515–1582), a Spanish ...

This exhibition unites 28 seminal works by Bernini and his contemporaries to chronicle how the prolific artist “transformed the dreary portrait bust, a tradition largely inert since ancient Rome ...

Notes Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Hampshire survey, 1993. Summary A figure of St. Teresa, dressed in a Carmelite habit, stands holding a bouquet of roses and a crucifix to her chest with both hands.

Both are at the Galleria Borghese. Another Bernini landmark, “Ecstasy of St. Teresa,” is mounted above an altar at the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria.

Located in the Cornaro Chapel, Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, the marble sculpture represents Saint Teresa of Ávila, a Spanish nun canonised in 1622, sprawled on a cloud with an angel.

Tracks annual change in Vik Muniz’s median prices and estimates. This chart shows whether the artist’s prices are rising or falling, without the distortion caused by the sale of exceptionally high or ...

Here sculpted members of the Venetian Cornaro family are shown looking out of theatre-type boxes, engaged in a discussion about the focal point of attraction - Bernini's Ecstasy of St Teresa, here ...

St. Teresa of Calcutta, who was born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Albania in 1910, was known as Mother Teresa for most of her life. In 1950, she founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta to ...

But it is not St Therese of Lisieux who concerns "Weather Eye" this morning, but her namesake, St Teresa of Avila, or to be more precise, Bernini's sculpture of the Ecstasy of same.

The chapel’s centerpiece is one of Bernini’s most celebrated sculptures, depicting the mystical experience of St. Theresa of Avila.