Practice question · True or false
The daylight falling on Bernini’s Saint Teresa comes from a concealed window built into the chapel.
Hints
- The illumination is real, not painted.
- The chapel was built to deliver it.
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True
Why
A hidden window drops real light down gilded bronze rays. Bernini fused sculpture, architecture, and lighting design into one staged event, the chapel is the artwork, not its container.
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