PC illustrates Bernini's Ecstasy of St Teresa, a work which can be best described as ravishing.
Roman Catholicism was so much more fun during the counter-reformation. Then it was opulent and sensuous; now it is priggish and earnest. St Teresa's own description of her vision can be found here; dirty, dirty, dirty.
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Didn't someone make an R18 arthouse movie about it?
Visions of Ecstacy, or something like it???
Craig
Yes - banned in the UK, I understand.
Or maybe I don't. Every good Catholic since Bernini has got the drift of Theresa's Ecstasy. It's not exactly a Papal state secret.
Help, I am being spammed by an anxiety drug.
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