Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Catholic porn

PC illustrates Bernini's Ecstasy of St Teresa, a work which can be best described as ravishing.

Roman Catholicism was so much more fun during the counter-reformation. Then it was opulent and sensuous; now it is priggish and earnest. St Teresa's own description of her vision can be found here; dirty, dirty, dirty.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Didn't someone make an R18 arthouse movie about it?
Visions of Ecstacy, or something like it???

Craig

Sam Finnemore said...

Yes - banned in the UK, I understand.

Or maybe I don't. Every good Catholic since Bernini has got the drift of Theresa's Ecstasy. It's not exactly a Papal state secret.

Paul said...

Help, I am being spammed by an anxiety drug.