The Rapture Of Saint Teresa

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Bernini was a sculptor, an architect, and a painter. He captured the Rapture of Saint Teresa with flowing robes in motion, as if trembling with Teresa’s rapturous joy as she was received into heaven.
Ascending into the light of heaven, she appears to approach the bright fresco painting above, a representation of heaven’s bliss brightened by light passing through a stained glass window. Bernini did what many Baroque artists attempted, inspiring faith by telling a visual story full of movement. Bernini created The Rapture while in Rome in the Santa Maria Della Vittoria, receiving his commission from
Cardinal Federico Cornaro in 1647.
The story expressed by this magnificent sculpture was of Saint Teresa—recently canonized and declared a saint—having …show more content…

Thomas’s poem looks upon death with fury and calls all to fight against death like it is something nobody wants to achieve. While Bernini had faith in the afterlife, Thomas saw no joy in death and could only see fighting against what he saw as darkness.
These works of art share similarities in their approach to the motif of transition into the afterlife.
Both the sculpture and the poem convey strong emotions coming from deep, heartfelt convictions.
Thomas expressed his emotion with very energetic wording. Bernini expressed his emotion in the flowing

5 robes and the spear piercing the heart. Bernini used the most violent act possible to show deep emotion spiritually. Thomas used violent language with emotional words like “fierce,” “burn,” “rage,” “dying,” and “meteors” to shake the reader with the strength of his passionate message. Bernini showed an angel plunging his spear into Saint Teresa representing the intensity of her emotions that overwhelmed her spiritually. Both artists used light as a metaphor for life. Thomas saw the light fading while Bernini

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