Baroque Midterm
1. Bernini was an Italian architect and sculptor who lived 1598-1680. During the reign of Urban VIII Bernini created several large-scale commissions around St. Peter’s Basilica. His plan of the square and colonnades in front of the basilica was an amazing architectural achievement. Bernini was a man of intense faith, and the supreme artist during the Catholic Counter-Reformation (Read, p. 42-43).He was selected as Vatican architect in 1629. In 1642, he began working on the ornamentation of the funerary chapel of Cardinal Federigo Cornaro in the Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria. The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1645-52) is a masterful religious sculpture, and is a skillful example of Bernini’s use of various materials (Read, p.43). The sculpture represents a vision in which an angel pierces Saint Teresa of Avila’s body with an arrow many times. The piercing sends Teresa into religious state of ecstasy. The angel and Teresa are depicted floating upon clouds. Bernini illustrates the emotions and movements of the figures as well as creating different colors and textures in the white marble. He carved the marble of Saint Teresa’s habit into a thick material, but still manages to show he
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Approximate Word count = 1766
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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