Guido Reni's "St. Cecilia"

Here's the pic I failed to get. In person the blacks were blacker and the exterior lights (real lights supplied by the museum) made her "headpiece" much more luminous and 3D.

I want to say, at least in retrospect, she reminded me a bit of Bernini's St. Teresa. Not saying that Reni was going after the same thing: religious ecstasy. But it's a possibility.

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