3. Background
• Inspired by Late Baroque architecture from
Rome (Bernini’s Ecstasy of Saint Teresa)
• All about illusion and spectacle
• It is also supposed to represent a theatre
setting
4. Characteristics
• Yellow glass window to represent the heavens
• Gold painted rays off of the heavens and
dove
• Different textures (rays, cloth, gilded cloth, stone)
• Gilded Mary and ascending angels
• Theatre scenery effect/staged feel
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7. Borrowing From Theatre
• Baroque and Late Baroque theatre = ornate and
luxuriously ornamented
• Idea was to create magic and illusions such as a 3D
looking backdrop
• Church’s idea was to create the depiction of a scene
in the church
