his baroque church Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome houses one of Bernini's most ambitious sculptures, "The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa" located inside the Cornaro Chapel.
Cappella Cornaro: By Bernini 1647 - 1651
The Venetian Cornaro's family commissioned the chapel. Bernini was the first who tried to combine architecture with sculpture and painting in order to have a scenographic effect.
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa: By Bernini 1646
The mystical experience melts with a real passion, to the limit of eroticism. Visitors maybe shocked or thrilled by the physical nature of Saint Teresa's ecstasy (shown above), as she appears collapsed on a cloud with mouth half open and eyelids closed, struck by the arrow of a smiling angel.
