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Ecstasy

Advanced emotion, subjective experience of total involvement of the subject, with an object of their awareness

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Images referencing Ecstasy

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  • Two faces expressing veneration and rapture. Etching, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.
  • Four faces expressing (clockwise from top left): admiration mixed with astonishment, admiration, veneration, and ecstasy. Etching by A.-J. Defehrt after C. Le Brun.
  • De l'angoisse à l'extase : études sur les croyances et les sentiments / par le dr. Pierre Janet.
  • The face of a woman in ecstasy (left); a female face expressing simple love (right). Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • The ecstasy of Andrea Corsini. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after G. Reni, c. 1635-40.
  • A male figure expressing ecstasy. Crayon Manner Print by W. Hebert, c. 1770, after C. Le Brun.
  • The Holy Spirit initiates the Pentecost. Engraving by A. Mochetti after N. Poussin (?).
  • Tongues of fire descend on the apostles at Pentecost. Lithograph.
  • An ecstatic eye. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • A face expressing rapture. Engraving by M. Engelbrecht (?), 1732, after C. Le Brun.

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    The ecstasy of Andrea Corsini. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after G. Reni, c. 1635-40.

    Reni, Guido, 1575-1642. | Reference: 25577i
    Part of: La Pinacoteca della Pontificia Accademia delle Belle Arti in Bologna
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    Two faces expressing veneration and rapture. Etching, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.

    Le Brun, Charles, 1619-1690. | Reference: 32364i
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    An ecstatic eye. Drawing, c. 1794.

    | Date: 1794? | Reference: 30819i
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    Tongues of fire descend on the apostles (Pentecost). Engraving by Jan Wierix, 1581, after P. van der Borcht.

    Borcht, Petrus van der, 1545-1608. | Date: ,[1581] | Reference: 24741i
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    De l'angoisse à l'extase : études sur les croyances et les sentiments / par le dr. Pierre Janet.

    Janet, Pierre, 1859-1947. | Date: 1926-1928

Related topics

Fires
Apostles
Holy Spirit
Physiognomy
Emotions
Pentecost
Church - Foundation
Face
Facial Expression
Christianity

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