A favor to ask about posting a pic

[ishmael]

Could someone who knows how to do this post a pic of Bernini's The Ecstasy of St. Teresa. Please.

I used to know how to do this, but it's changed and I haven't retrained.

[paladin]

[Singlegrandad]

This is a very strange request to my way of thinking. Do you need help sir?

[Wild Dingo]

This is a very strange request to my way of thinking. Do you need help sir?

You are talking about Ish mate

Jack mate it hasnt changed you still do the pic posting exactly as we always have done

[ishmael]

Thanks, Chuck. For those this interests have a look around at close ups and such. Spectacular.

Bernini was out of favor with his traditional patron, the papacy, and got this commission for a private chapel, where it still resides in Rome, fairly late in life. The angel is about to pierce her for the second time with its arrow.

Teresa was a late middle ages nun given to ecstatic visions, who wrote extensively about them. Near as I can fug, she was tapped in. Much talk of the union, in ecstatic terms, with God.

It's widely considered the finest statement of late renaissance sculpture. It is certainly, unbelievably, beautiful. I would love to see it in person before I die.

P.S. A French nobleman, perhaps a century after it was sculpted remarked, "If that is divine love, I know all about it."

That pic is just a taste.

[elf]

Just a plane ticket away - go in the winter.

Don't put it off. No point dying never having done something that you believe could be wonderful. Just do it.

[Leon m]

Bernini kicks Angelo's butt !

[Leon m]

[rbgarr]

There was an interesting PBS show on Bernini the other night. Quite a rake!

[Yeadon]

Maybe I misread, but is that statue at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican? Seems familiar, but then, after a while, if they're not David, then they all start to look alike to me.

[ishmael]

It's at Cornaro Chapel of Santa Maria della Vittoria. Not the Vatican.

[SamSam]

I saw The Ecstasy statue on TV this morning and thought there was an awful lot of effort put into the over starched cloth and the fingers and toes were misshapen. The other statue is much better, is it by the same guy?

[huisjen]

Yeah, I know we all hate it when we loose track and our toes get all kinked up like that. It happens to me though.

[SamSam]

The toes/foot was just homely. Worse was all the fingers were misshapen sausage like.

The statues are impressive though, how the work deep down in the folds is done is mystifying and it must be a worry that something small might break off. It must happen, I wonder how they repair them.

[paladin]

Epoxy!