Statue of Santa Teresa de Jesus, Museum of St

Painted wooden statue of Santa Teresa de Jesus or St Teresa of Avila, 1515-82, Carmelite Reform author, seated at a desk and writing using a quill pen, late 17th century, by Jose Risueno, 1665-1721, Baroque artist from Granada, in Room 6 (St Michael's Choir Loft) of the Museum of St John of the Cross, or the Museo Conventual y Oratorio de San Juan de la Cruz, Ubeda, Jaen, Andalusia, Spain. The sculpture belonged to the Convent of the Martyrs in Granada, and is in the collection of the Carmelitas Delcalzos Curia Provincial in Cordoba. St John of the Cross, 1542-91, was a Spanish mystic, Roman Catholic saint, Carmelite friar and priest and one of the Doctors of the Church. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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