Heinrich Meyring
Ecstasy of St. Teresa

1697
Church of the Scalzi, Venice

This sculpture of the "transverberation" owes much to Bernini's of fifty years earlier, but it is somewhat more decorous. The saint's face expresses a meditative calm rather than emotional intensity and her garments are less rumpled. Meyring's angel delicately touches her habit whereas Bernini's holds his arm back in preparation for a deep thrust.

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Photographed at the church by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.