Shedd, Julia Ann Clark, 1834-1897 · Boston : Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 199
. Peters isfrom designs by Bernini and Giacomo della Porta. For the chapel of S. Teresa, in S. Maria della Vit-toria, he executed a group representing the saint in ec-stasy, an angel about to shoot an arrow into her heart; itwas much admired, but partakes strongly of the sensualin character. In the… … I 159ft] GIOVANNI LORENZO BERNINI. 175 this artists mythological sculptures is a Eape of Proser-pine, iu the Villa Ludovisi; a group which is ridiculousand repulsive in character. Berninis greatest work in architecture is the circularcolonnade of St. Peters. M. Wey says of this construc-tion : —…
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