B for Bernini

Posting the A-Z of Dan Brown's books through his words, characters, places and more. Welcome to the A-Z April 2015 challenge...

B is for Bernini

"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 . . . Pope Urban VIII had rejected The Ecstasy of St Teresa as too sexually explicit for the Vatican. He had banished it to some obscure chapel across town."

- from Angels and Demons, chapter 84

Bernini's The Ecstasy of St Teresa

Secrets of Angels & Demons Book Review

Anyone who has loved reading Dan Brown's famous novel, Angels and Demons, has found great interest in the arts, science and history surrounding ancient and current Italy and the period of renaissance.

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