Jan 19, 2016
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by Hannah McGivern
Five hundred years after the birth of St Teresa of Avila (1515-82), Gian Lorenzo Bernini's emotive Baroque sculpture of the Spanish nun experiencing religious ecstasy has been restored.
Conservators cleaned almost two decades of grime from statues in the Cornaro chapel of the Santa Maria della Vittoria church in Rome, including the angel poised to pierce the saint's heart with a golden arrow and, on either side, relief busts of members of the Cornaro family, Bernini's patrons.
Source: http://theartnewspaper.com/
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