All 5 Uses of
ecstasy
in
Angels & Demons
- The note indicated that the famous Bernini sculpture, The Ecstasy of St. Teresa, shortly after its unveiling, had been moved from its original location inside the Vatican.†
Chpt 83-84
- Though some thought it a masterpiece, Pope Urban VIII had rejected The Ecstasy of St. Teresa as too sexually explicit for the Vatican.†
Chpt 83-84 *
- An English critic had once condemned The Ecstasy of St. Teresa as "the most unfit ornament ever to be placed in a Christian Church."†
Chpt 83-84
- Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Teresa rose up like some sort of pornographic still life …. the saint on her back, arched in pleasure, mouth open in a moan, and over her, an angel pointing his spear of fire.†
Chpt 93-94
- Langdon moved past the firemen toward Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Teresa.†
Chpt 99-100
Definition:
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(ecstasy as in: a state of ecstasy) a state of intense happiness