PB 49

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The altarpiece was commissioned from Bernardo Strozzi for the high altar of the church of Santa Teresa, which was later destroyed. It was probably painted by the artist around the time of the saint's canonisation in 1622, and certainly not before 1619, the year the church itself was founded. The painter's attention here is entirely focused on the pictorial and chromatic rendering of the upward movement, achieved through the vertical scanning of the clouds and the deliberate contrast between the shaded areas of the lower register, at the feet of the saint, and the golden gash of the sky that awaits her, framing her face. (ORLANDO, SANGUINETI 2020, p. 64) The painting depicts Saint Teresa in glory surrounded by cherubs.