First let's
consider that Bernini is, in every sense, "a Renaissance man". Not only was he versed
in sculpture as an artist, but he was also an architect, a historian, poet, dramatist, and avid
in literature. Bernini read the diary of St. Teresa de Avila's The Life of Saint
Teresa of vila by herself, Chapter 29, where she explains how one of her may
visions led her to the Via Unitiva, one of the three Renaissance Catholic communions that
extreme Catholics such as Theresa, and San Juan de la Cruz, to cite another example, would
engage into to ultimately meet with God. In her writings, Teresa said that, to her left side,
she saw an angel that, out of nowhere came and stabbed her with a spear that..
was so severe that it made me utter several moans. The sweetness
caused by this intense pain is so extreme that one cannot possibly wish it to cease, nor is ones
soul then content with anything but God..
These
seemingly extreme ways were common in 16th century Spain. Bernini wanted to...
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