Shrouded in a fiery mist.(Santa Maria della Vittoria church)

From: TriQuarterly | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Santa Maria della Vittoria, which houses Bernini's statue "The Ecstasy of St. Teresa," is Rome's most sugary church. Its walls and ceiling teem with angels that seem to be made of meringue or perhaps that type of porcelain known as "biscuit," a word that implies both fragility and mouth-feel. One flight of seraphim is tacked to another with garlands of gold. Ribbons of nougat are the only thing that keep the heavenly folk aloft; otherwise they'd slide down columns of licorice, cherry, butter.

The marble is like marzipan; the rock is sawn to reveal the whorls inside that seem ...

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