Did Bernini’s Ecstasy of St. Teresa cross a seventeenth-century line of decorum?

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Did Bernini’s Ecstasy of St. Teresa cross a seventeenth-century line of decorum?

Franco Mormando

Boston College

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Is The Ecstasy of St. Teresa by Bernini his most controversial work, and did it transgress the boundaries of decorum as understood by seventeenth-century Catholicism?

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Did Bernini’s Ecstasy of St. Teresa cross a seventeenth-century line of decorum?