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Bernini sculpted his name saint as a pious demonstration of his skill. As innovative as he was precocious, Bernini carved flames and smoke - effects hitherto limited to painting - out of marble. His ecstatic Counter-Reformation martyr, glimpsing Heaven, is far from the jocular figure of medieval sermons, who told his tormentors, "Turn me over, I am done on this side!"
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