Art 102 - Survey of Art History 2 » Spring 2022 » Bernini, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa

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Question #1
What did Bernini use to heighten the illusionistic effects of the sculpture group The Ecstasy of St. Teresa?
A.   central placement in the church's apse
B.   relief sculptures of the patrons
C.   a hidden window
D.   a mechanical device
Question #2
Typical of Italian Baroque art, this sculpture tries to engage the viewer in order to _________ .
A.   emphasize Theresa's saintliness
B.   engage with humanistic ideas
C.   inspire faith
Question #3
Which of the following is NOT true of Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Teresa?
A.   Both the text and Bernini's sculpture use the physical body and sexual symbolism to convey the spiritual experience.
B.   The subject is of a saint, canonized in 1622, having a vision of an angel. Bernini based his sculpture on St. Teresa's written accounts of the vision.
C.   He combines elements of architecture, sculpture, and painting in situating the sculpture in the chapel with polychromed marble, fresco, and stained glass.
D.   All of the marble was finished in the same way, unifying the figures with the architecture in the chapel.
Question #4
In Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, Bernini expressed ideas of ___________ by using the ornate elements of the church to express a direct relationship between the individual and the spiritual realm.
A.   Renaissance Humanism
B.   the Counter-Reformation
C.   the Reformation
Question #5
Bernini involved the viewer through the entire space of the chapel which suggests we are part of the audience witnessing the spiritual event.
A.   False
B.   True

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