HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Carmelites, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, One Dark Night
11 Apr 2020
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It was immortalized in 1647-51 by gian lorenzo berini. In a marble sculpture still visible in rome. Bernini was one of the first baroque artists. It added in elements earlier artists might have found gaudy: teresa"s influence. Thanks to berini"s sculpture and her writings, teresa"s later influence was more widespread. She more immediately influenced carmelite john of the cross. Juan de la cruz met teresa in 1567. He soon became one of her followers: carmelite reforms. Teresa and john both were committed to reforming the church from within. Circa 1577 to 1578, john was kidnapped and even tortured by anti-reform carmelites: reforming the order. To some of the carmelites, teresa and john were disturbingly remiscent of another hardline friar who had gone from internal to external reform. Luther who got his start as a reformer by joining the rigorist sect within the order of the. In 1577, then john was captured by the angry carmelites.
