Alberti's Window
An art history blog
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
The Ecstasy of St. Robert Plant
While commuting to work this morning, I listened to Led Zeppelin's
"Mothership"
album in anticipation for my lecture on Baroque art. But there's no similarity between those two things, you say? I beg to differ:
Bernini, detail of
The Ecstasy of St. Theresa
(1647-52)
Of course, the "ecstasy" that may have influenced Robert Plant would have been much different from the ecstasy of St. Theresa...
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