Gianlorenzo Bernini, boy wonder, then adult prodigy
- sculptor, architect, composer, as well as a dashing Cavalier, and the
personal friend of Pope Urban VIII. His sculptures have the breath of
life flowing through them; in his hands stone seems to move and ripple.
Then, in the late 1640s, Bernini's star falls; cracks appear in the
bell-tower he has built for St. Peter's. Bernini needs a miracle to
restore his fortune. So he makes one: The Ecstasy of St Theresa. His
marble saint levitates and quivers, hovering on the border between
mystery and indecency. Devotees flock to see this holy peepshow, flesh
dissolving into spirit, a mystery exuding pain and pleasure, carnal
consummation and disembodied bliss. No wonder people watch.
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