He Carved An Orgasm Into The Most Sacred Sculpture

In a church near the Piazza della Repubblica in Rome, there is a sculpture that the Vatican has displayed for nearly four hundred years and never officially explained. A nun named Teresa of Ávila floats on a cloud, her head thrown back, her mouth slightly open, an angel beside her aiming a golden spear at her heart. The expression on her face has been described by scholars, art historians, and a French president using the same word — and Bernini carved it directly from Teresa's own written account of what the experience felt like.
In this video we explore the most controversial expression ever carved in a Roman church, the hidden window that makes the light appear to fall from heaven with no visible source, and the marble theatre boxes where the family who commissioned this chapel sit watching the scene unfold — turning every visitor who walks in into a latecomer to a performance that has been running since 1652.
Because the church approved every detail. And in nearly four hundred years, nobody has officially said a word about what it shows.