Bernini's Teresa, 1647
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12 x 8" St. Teresa of Avila , properly Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, in 1545, as imagined by Bernini in 1647, as she would have appeared in ecstasy at 30 years of age. He used the same model again, twenty someyears later, to represent Ludovica Albertoni. I'm thinking a lot about Caravaggio's foreshortened faces. I'd always thought, from photographs in books, that her eyes were nearly shut, slitted in ecstasy; actually they're wide open and rolled back.