ID: 901002215 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002215	Record Type: Event/Narrative

	Ecstasy of Teresa (Christian narrative)

Note: From an autobiographical Vita completed in 1565, Teresa describes a piercing or transverberation of her heart by an angel.

Names:

	Ecstasy of Teresa (Christian narrative) (preferred,English-P,D,P)
	Transverberation of Saint Teresa (Christian narrative) (English)
	L'Estasi di Santa Teresa (Christian narrative) (Italian-P)

Hierarchical Position:

		Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
		....<Christian iconography> (P)
		........<Other Christian narratives> (P)
		............Life of Saint Teresa (Christian narrative) (I)
		................Ecstasy of Teresa (Christian narrative) (P)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... narrative (literary works)
	.....(genres for literature, genres in literature and performing arts, concepts in the arts and humanities, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Ecstasy of Teresa (Christian narrative)
	................Contributed as a candidate term Snite Museum, auguat 2019
	................Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)
	Transverberation of Saint Teresa (Christian narrative)
	................Catholic Encyclopedia [online], republished from 1913 edition (2003-)
	L'Estasi di Santa Teresa (Christian narrative)
	................ICCD database (1988-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Waal, ICONCLASS (1975) 11HH(THERESA)341 an angel pierces the heart of the (swooning) St. Theresa with a spear or dart with a flaming tip ('Transverberatio')
	................ Source for image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_of_Saint_Teresa#/media/File:Ecstasy_of_Saint_Teresa_September_2015-2a.jpg
	................ Catholic Encyclopedia [online], republished from 1913 edition (2003-)