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她看起来确实很陶醉 She's in ecstasy all right.
头后仰 小嘴微张 Her head is thrown back, her mouth open.
星眸半开半闭 Her heavy-lidded eyes are half-closed.
一只天使般的手掌正在暴露她的乳房 An angelic hand is delicately uncovering her breast.
你不得不去看 You have to look.
但是又不知道往哪儿看 You don't know where to look.
在贝尼尼创作了这尊雕像后过了一百年 A century after Bernini created this sculpture,
一名法国艺术爱好者来到了罗马 a French art lover, doing the tour of Rome,
进入教堂 经过长时间的凝视之后他说道 came into this church, peered at the spectacle and said,
好吧 如果那就是神圣的爱情的话 我想我已经体会到了 ''Well, if that's divine love, I know all about it. ''
那么 这是什么呢 So, what is this?
可以肯定的是她不是在意淫 Surely not an erotic trance,
罗马最虔诚的雕刻家肯定也不是 not from the most devout sculptor in Rome.
作为一名主教们的知己好友 No one who was the bosom friend of popes,
天主教运动的重要支持者 a pillar of the Catholic establishment,
他很可能是想让我们看到一个高潮中的修女形象 could possibly want us to see a nun in the throes of orgasm,
真的是这样吗 could he?
艺术的力量：贝尼尼
不管是生理上还是精神上 假装兴奋都没有什么益处 It's no good pretending that ecstasy isn't a physical as well as a spiritual experience.
那种激情并不是躯体或者灵魂的一种感情发泄 That passion doesn't work through the body as well as the soul.
贝尼尼对激情再了解不过了 Bernini knew all about passion.
他的艺术作品也都于激情有关 That's what his art was about.
正是表现出的这种激情将会使雕像发生变化 It was this physical intensity that would transform sculpture.
在他之前还没有人把大理石表现的如此富有肉感 No one before Bernini had managed to make marble so carnal.
在温柔的抚摸下 （大理石雕像）飘飘欲动 仿佛在颤抖 肌肤也仿佛渗出了汗水 In his nimble hands, it would flutter and stream, quiver and sweat.
他的作品有的在哭泣 有的在呐喊 His figures weep and shout,
在强烈的感受下 their torsos twist and run and arch themselves
他们扭曲的躯体仿佛在奔流涌动 in spasms of intense sensation.
贝尼尼就像一个炼金术士 能够把一种物质变成另一种 He could, like an alchemist, change one material into another.
他可以把大理石变成枝丫 叶子 头发 Marble into trees, leaves, hair
当然还能变成肌肤 and, of course, flesh.
经典雕塑的整体观点是要把人类表现的没有什么肉感 The whole point of classical sculpture was to make humans less so,
同时还要赋予它们肌肤以不朽的光滑 to give mortal flesh the heavyweight smoothness of immortality.
所以这样以来 经典雕像大部分看起来像是神 却没有人气血色 So many of them end up looking divine, but bloodless.
贝尼尼的出现改变了这一切 But then, along comes Bernini,
随着贝尼尼（创作风格）旋风呼啸而来 and suddenly even Michelangelo's David looks immobile
即便是米开朗基罗的大卫雕像也显得不怎么富有动感了 beside Bernini's whirling, twisting tornado.
如果雕像是会体现出重力作用的话 贝尼尼则完全是反其道而行之 If sculpture was supposed to convey gravity, Bernini would defy it.
他的作品仿佛要挣脱雕像基座的束缚腾空而去 His figures break loose from their plinths, flying away into space.
如果还有人记得的话 For as long as anyone could remember,
还是小孩子的杰安·劳伦佐·贝尼尼（Gian Lorenzo Bernini）就让人刮目相看了 Gian Lorenzo Bernini had startled the people who mattered.
当八岁时候他被带到了教皇面前 Brought before the Pope when he was just eight,
他就创作了一幅圣保罗的头部速描 he did a lightning sketch of St Paul's head,
这让教皇很是吃惊 他认为这个孩子将会是下一个米开朗基罗 that prompted the astonished Pope to tip the little boy as the next Michelangelo.
他的父亲Pietro是一个来自佛罗伦萨的雕刻家 His father, Pietro, was a sculptor from Florence.
他的水平时好时坏 Seldom better than competent and sometimes worse.
但是从他儿子那里 他看到了一种优秀的品质 But in his son, he knew a good thing when he saw it.
一位红衣主教欣赏者说道 贝尼尼先生 要注意了 ''Watch out, Signor Bernini,'' an admiring cardinal said,
这个孩子将来肯定大有可为 ''The boy will surpass his master.''
于是 我们的小天才就这么出名了 So, fast out of the starting blocks, our little prodigy.
这尊杰作中的人物很顽皮 Here's a playful tour de force.
两个搂抱着的小天使 大大的眼睛是那么天真无邪 Two little angels embrace in wide-eyed innocence.
这是阿曼尔提亚（Amalthea是一位用山羊奶照顾朱比特成人的仙女） 山羊 还有幼儿时期的朱比特 And this is his goat, Amalthea, and the infant Jupiter.
一个标准的神话人物就这样变成了 A standard bit of mythology transformed into a romp.
是什么令这些无趣的神话人物变得如此富有生机 What makes these little figures burst from their dull, mythological subject matter?
他们仿佛能呼出生命的气息 They have the hot breath of life in them,
简直就是一个幼儿园的淘气包 lusty, mischievous, nursery school naughtiness.
贝尼尼于1605年来到了罗马 Bernini arrived in Rome in 1605.
那时正是卡瓦拉乔的街头戏剧（指以街头题材表现圣经情节） Just at the time that Caravaggio's punchy street dramas
震惊教会的时候 were electrifying the Church,
卡瓦拉乔带来了一种感动大众的全新手段 giving it a new vision of how to move the flock.
圣人不再遥不可及 No more remote saints.
相反 粗陋的现世的激情成了舞台的主角 Instead, the shock theatre of the earthy passions.
来自血与肉的救赎 Salvation in the guts.
那么怎样才能超越卡瓦拉乔呢 So how do you top Caravaggio?
答案是你不能 除非是在雕刻方面 Answer: you can't, but in sculpture.
这是由于信仰基督教而被送上烤架的圣劳伦斯 This is St Lawrence being barbecued alive for his Christian beliefs.
创作该作品时贝尼尼只有十六岁 Bernini was 16 when he did this.
他所捕捉的是劳伦斯对痛苦处之泰然的时刻 He's trying to catch the moment of transcendent pain
如果依神话传说而言 当时圣劳伦斯以一种恐怖的口气对行刑人说 when, if we believe the legends, St Lawrence turns to his executioners and says,
伙计 能不能给我翻个身 这面儿已经烤好了 in a moment of macabre drollery, ''Right, turn me over, boys, this side's done. ''
所以毫不奇怪 他成为了灶神 No wonder he became the patron saint of cooks.
但是这里却表现出了一些严肃的事情 But there's something serious going on here.
当劳伦斯的手掌触到火焰的时候 一种神秘的转变发生了 As Lawrence's hand touches the flame, a mysterious transformation takes place.
据记载者说 烤焦的肌肉发出了芬芳的气味 The chroniclers said the smell of scorched flesh turned fragrant.
痛苦与甜蜜合二为一了 Pain and sweetness become one.
折磨变成了享受 Torment becomes ecstasy.
这已足够让罗马的一个大人物 It was enough to make one bigwig on the Roman scene,
红衣主教Scipione Borghese Cardinal Scipione Borghese, want to adopt Gian Lorenzo
把他收入麾下 as his personal star property.
他将会使主教位于Pincian山上的别墅 Someone who'd make his fabulous new villa, up here on the Pincian Hill,
成为一个观赏伟大艺术品的场所 the place to see great art.
这肯定会令其他红衣主教眼红不已 How the other red hats would gnash their teeth in envy.
那里有比Scipione Borghese的生命更为伟大的东西 There was something larger than life about Scipione Borghese.
粗壮的头颈部坐落在壮实的躯体上 The bull-like neck and head sat atop a jumbo body.
贝尼尼可够狡猾的 Sly Bernini,
通过一颗半扣上的纽扣 using a button that can't quite make it through its hole
人们感觉到了胖子主教穿上绸衣的勉强 to give us a feeling for the flesh tight-packed into the satin.
毕竟主教是一个有血有肉的活人 The holy man of the Church is, above all, a physical presence.
比起他的显赫身份来 他更像是个厨师 He looks more like a chef than His Eminence.
贝尼尼说 他所追求的是一种讲话的相似性 What he was after, Bernini said, was a speaking likeness,
因为他认为在说话前后 because he thought that people gave themselves away.
人们的大部分特征就在不经意间暴露出来了 most characteristically either just before or after they spoke.
所以对Ccipione他也施以此法 So he works his magic on Scipione.
从主教帽子前面露出来的一部分刘海 The little fringe poking out from the Cardinal's hat,
花栗鼠面颊 丰润厚实的嘴唇 the chipmunk cheeks, the fleshy, blubbery lips.
迎着光线 Scipione的鼻子看起来有一层薄薄的汗水 Scipione's nose catching the light in such a way as to suggest a film of sweat.
在燥热的城市里 这是很自然的现象 The natural effusion of a big man in a hot city.
在罗马这个宗教大都市里物欲横流 Rome, the holy metropolis, buzzing with worldly ambition.
对于教会贵族统治者来说 光有钱是不够的 For the church aristocracy, it's not just the money you've got that counts.
艺术也很重要 It's also the art.
画家 雕刻家还有建筑师都在寻找资助者 Painters, sculptors and architects are angling for patrons,
当时的罗思柴尔德家族和萨奇家族 教会的主教们 and the Rothschilds and the Saatchis of their day, the popes and cardinals,
都在下注赌谁是下一个艺术天才 are gambling on the next prize genius.
当然 贝尼尼已经拥有成功的一切因素 Bernini, of course, has everything it takes to succeed.
他诙谐而又有魅力 人缘儿很好 He's witty, charming, extremely well-connected,
涵养也很足 又能严格自律 frighteningly cultured, ferociously disciplined,
通常能信守承诺 always delivers when he says he will
而且还不喝酒 and he doesn't drink.
换句话说 他是个与卡瓦拉乔截然相反的人 In other words, the opposite of Caravaggio.
那么我们又是怎么知道这些的呢 And how do we know all this?
那是因为有人把贝尼尼的一言一行都记录下来的缘故 Well, someone had noted Bernini's every move.
Filippo Baldinucci是一个二流画家 爱论人是非 同时还是个艺术评论家 Filippo Baldinucci, minor painter, gossip and art critic.
但是这一切都不重要 Not that important in himself,
重要的是他能通过一些了解贝尼尼的人那里收集到资料 but someone who'd collected everything he could from those who knew Bernini,
然后会把这些资料编入自己的一手传记 and turned it into his first proper biography.
当他在城中闲逛的时候
他就是众人瞩目的中心
他的很有派头
当他想要得到什么东西的时候
他只要使个眼色就OK了
这就是阿波罗与达夫妮 This is Apollo and Daphne.
这是一个关于泡妞的故事 It's a story of sexual hunting.
阿波罗希对达夫妮落花有意 Apollo wants the nymph, Daphne.
而达夫妮却流水无情 She definitely doesn't want him.
于是他就开始追逐达夫妮 He runs after her,
但是当快要抓到达夫妮时 and just as he's about to grab her,
神灵实现了达夫妮的祈祷 把她变成了一株月桂树 the gods answer her prayers by turning her into a laurel tree.
这是一个极富动感的雕像 It's all-action sculpture.
阿波罗气喘吁吁 Apollo breaking his breathless run,
他的披肩和头发仍然飘荡在风中 his cape and his hair still flying in the wind.
被逼上绝路的达夫妮也没有停止下来的迹象 Daphne, who's cornered, isn't rooted to the spot,
除去植物学上的表现 她看起来好像是在爬向空中 except botanically, and seems to be climbing into the air,
她张大嘴巴发出尖叫 her mouth open wide in a scream.
头发与手指已经变成枝叶的模样 Hair and fingers already metamorphosing into leafy twigs.
但是这出戏剧表现出了一种逗弄 But the tease of the drama is the silky nude
通过包装性的树皮下显现出的 that Bernini's made available to us
如缎般光滑的肌肤 exactly as she disappears
贝尼尼让我们感受到了（这种逗弄） inside her protective casing of tree bark.
令人痛苦的功败垂成（指阿波罗） A painfully thwarted consummation.
这可不仅仅是我 It's not just me.
法国一位红衣主教说他是不会把这尊雕像摆在家里的 A French cardinal said he wouldn't have it in his house
因为任何看到它的人都会激动起来 because such a beautiful nude would be sure to arouse anybody who saw it.
据说当贝尼尼听到这些话时很是高兴 Bernini is said to have been really pleased when he heard that.
此时贝尼尼才二十出头 但他已经是一个超级巨星了 Bernini is in his early 20s, a superstar.
权贵们争相讨好他 Someone on whom the mighty and the powerful almost fawn.
其中教皇乔治十六世就赐他一个爵位 One pope, Gregory XV, makes him a knight,
于是贝尼尼就有了一个贝尼尼骑士（一种爵位）的称谓 so Bernini is known ever after as the Cavaliere.
下任教皇乌尔班八世把他当作最好的朋友 The next pope, Urban VIII, makes him his best friend.
这里有个故事 当红衣主教巴贝利尼成为乌尔班八世时 There's a story that when Cardinal Barberini became Pope Urban VIII,
他把贝尼尼召到自己的寓所对他说 he called Bernini into his apartment and said...
能生活在巴贝利尼主教统治下是你的幸运
但是能生活在巴贝利尼教皇时代的贝尼尼骑士应该感到更幸运
教皇准许他能自由出入他的寓所 A painfully thwarted consummation.
即便是没有预约
他们促膝长谈直至深夜
他一直在劝贝尼尼去结婚
这样一来就会有人来照顾他了
他也就能全身心的投入艺术工作中去了
贝尼尼是罗马顶尖的艺术鉴赏家 Bernini is Rome's supreme virtuoso.
他是艺术皇帝 而且不仅仅限于雕刻方面 The emperor of the arts, and not just in sculpture.
同时他也是画家 建筑大师 剧作家 He's also a painter, a master builder and a playwright.
而且他拥有了世上的一切 And he has everything, charisma, swarthy good looks,
他魅力十足 容貌俊秀 有用不完的钱财和很高的社会地位 当然还有敌人 money, status and enemies.
这位是弗朗西斯科·巴洛米尼 This is Francesco Borromini,
他很内向 沉默寡言 有点儿神经质 一副忧郁的样子 taciturn, neurotic, introverted, depressive.
这样的人无论如何是不会有什么社交礼貌的 A man of absolutely no social graces whatsoever.
但是好也罢坏也罢 For good and for ill,
巴洛米尼将会在贝尼尼生活中扮演一个非常重要的角色 Borromini would play a pivotal role in Bernini's life.
这两位将会互相妨碍彼此实现各自的野心 The two of them would trip over each other's ambitions,
并彼此相互激励达到一个更高的艺术层次 spur each other on to ever-greater heights,
同时还有更大的危险 ever-greater risks.
巴洛米尼是位才华横溢的建筑大师 Borromini was a brilliant architect.
他的建筑风格不守常规 墙壁阳台的凸出与曲线设计时常会给人们带来惊喜 He made walls and balconies curve and bulge where they had no right to.
悸动的天花板仿佛在歌唱 Ceilings that sing and throb.
如果说有两个人应该为罗马的巴洛克式面貌 If two men were responsible for creating the look of baroque Rome,
为罗马之所以成为罗马负责的话 for making Rome Rome,
那么他们就是贝尼尼和巴洛米尼 those two men were Borromini and Bernini.
但是二人却相互仇视 And they hated each other.
一开始 这只是单方面的竞争 At first, it was a one-way rivalry.
巴洛米尼对贝尼尼的声望很是怨恨 Borromini resented Bernini's popularity,
而且他内心是很希望成得到众人的青睐 his hogging of the limelight.
这有点像莫扎特和萨利埃雷（ Salieri：宫廷乐师 惊羡于莫扎特的天才 欲除之） It's a bit like Mozart and Salieri.
只是这里的“萨利埃雷”可不弱 Only there's no Salieri here, no weaker talent.
他们都是天才 They're both geniuses.
200年前二人分别设计建造了这两座罗马教堂 Look at these two churches, just 200 yards away from each other, in Rome.
建造者一个是贝尼尼 另一个是巴洛米尼 One by Bernini, the other by Borromini..
这是由巴洛米尼建造的圣卡罗教堂 Here's the Borromini church, San Carlo delle Quattro Fontane.
这是顶尖级别建筑大师的伟大作品 It's the work of an architect chess master,
纯洁 朴素 pure and austere.
只有砖块和灰泥 没有任何着色 也没有雕像 Just brick and stucco, no colour or sculpture allowed.
其高度精密的几何学应用甚至能引起幻觉 Just mind-blowing designs, worked out from the higher geometry.
这是形状与数字的完美结合 The heavenly order of shapes and numbers.
现在 让我们看看贝尼尼的作品 Now, here's the Bernini church.
墙壁着色浓密 Loads of colour trowelled on, as if it were a stage set
好像是一个处于舞台灯光下的场景和道具 with full theatrical lighting.
令人眼花缭乱 It's all look-at-me razzle-dazzle.
卖弄的 发自内心的 性感的 就像贝尼尼自己一样 Showy, visceral and sexy, just like him.
二人真正的较量始于1624年 The rivalry between Bernini and Borromini started in earnest in 1624,
当时教会要任命一个 when someone had to be appointed the new architect for Saint Peter's,
建造圣彼得教堂和祭坛华盖的总设计师 and get to build the baldachino,
祭坛华盖是位于圣彼得幕穴上方的一个巨大的遮篷 the enormous canopy over the tomb of Saint Peter,
它处于米开朗基罗大穹顶的正下方 located directly under Michelangelo's great dome.
这可是个最令人羡慕的职位 It's the plummiest job in town.
在那个时候 巴洛米尼应该比贝尼尼更合适 Now, at this stage, Borromini was far more qualified than Bernini.
他受到的训练就是要成为一名建筑师 很明显他很够资格 He'd trained as an architect and was the obvious candidate for the job.
但是猜猜看是谁笑到了最后 But guess who got it?
是魅力十足的吉安·劳伦佐·贝尼尼 Mr Charming, Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
当然 锻造并安置这个扭曲的铜制大遮篷 Of course, the engineering problems of forging the great canopy,
遇到的工程问题 raising this twisty gilt-bronze monster,
令贝尼尼犯了难 were a serious stretch for Bernini's competence.
所以 他很聪明的去寻求帮助 So, wisely, he gets help.
他找到了巴洛米尼 后者也没有选择的余地 He turns to Borromini, who had no choice but to help.
毕竟这对教会来说是件好事 It was for the greater good of the Church, after all.
建筑通常是集体合作的结晶 Architecture has always been a collaborative exercise,
所以我们会发现在祭坛华盖上全部作品的作者 so it's not surprising to find that virtually all the drawings for the baldachino
都是巴洛米尼也就毫不奇怪了 are by Borromini.
那么最后巴洛米尼得到他想要的声望了吗 得到个屁 Does he get the credit he deserves? Does he hell.
对于这一点 巴洛米尼是永远也不会忘记也不会宽恕的 And that, Francesco Borromini neither forgives nor forgets.
贝尼尼这个性格特点可不好 It's an unappealing trait,
他心胸狭窄 不愿意和他人分享荣光 this ungenerous instinct for monopolising the glory.
报应最终会来的 And it will come back to bite Bernini.
不仅仅是巴洛米尼意识到了这一点 It's not just Borromini who feels it.
当初帮助贝尼尼创作达夫妮手臂上枝叶的助手 The assistant who did that fine leaf-work on Daphne's leaves
也是因为没有得到应得的荣誉 was so angry at not getting his due
最后才愤然离他而去 that he walked out of the project in a rage.
但是当时的贝尼尼骑士 But then the Cavaliere Bernini
对他的助手们却很是傲慢 always did have a cavalier way with his assistants.
他以为自己是世界之王呢
他的亲生母亲如是抱怨道 His own mother complained.
所以他就取其所需 So he took what he needed.
技巧方面的知识 辛苦的打磨工作 Technical expertise, grinding toil
还有其中一个助手的妻子 and, in the case of one of his assistants,
这个助手的名字叫Matteo Buonarelli Matteo Buonarelli, his wife.
他妻子的名字叫做Costanza 和康士坦茨湖谐音(Constance位于瑞士德国和奥地利交界) Her name is Costanza. Constance.
不知道当贝尼尼和她鬼混的时候有没有对此感到好笑呢 Did she and Bernini have a laugh in bed about that?
这就是1637年的她了 当时二人正爱的死去活来 Here she is, in 1637, at the height of their affair.
我们可以看出来他是多么的爱她 You can see he can't get enough of her.
而且正是这种浓烈的爱慕 And from the intensity of all this brimming desire
为欧洲带来了一种全新的雕刻风格 comes an entirely new kind of European sculpture.
站在Constanza雕塑面前 这座半身像曾经被众人所敬仰 Before Costanza, busts had been entirely respectable,
而且它还常常被预定作为坟墓陪葬品 and they were usually reserved for tombs.
很久以前也只有罗马人 Only the Romans, a long time before,
会为非正式的肖像制作雕塑 had used sculpture for informal portraits.
但是informal（非正式）这个词应该不适用于Costanza 不是吗 But informal doesn't quite do it for Costanza, does it?
那么intimate（亲密朋友）这个词怎么样 How about intimate?
因为这是一个激情表现在脸上和身体上的女子的肖像 For this is a portrait of a woman whose passion is written on her face and her body.
她那艳丽的特质只会让情人的欲火燃烧的更旺 Whose flaring temper just adds fuel to her lover's fire.
这就是我们所说的带着强烈感情的雕刻 This is what we mean by lovingly carved.
这就像是贝尼尼在用凿子一遍遍的回味彼此间的爱抚 It's as though Bernini was reliving his caresses with his chisel.
她那宽松的上衣摇摇欲落 The falling away of the blouse,
这也许是欧洲所有雕塑中 perhaps the single, sexiest invitation
最简单也是最富挑逗性的邀请 in all European sculpture.
但是这尊雕塑还有其特别之处 There's something else unique about this sculpture.
这也是一个烈性女子的庆典时刻 It's the celebration of a spitfire.
虽然Costanza Buonarelli的丈夫只是个身份低下的雕塑助手 Costanza Buonarelli may have been the wife of a lowly assistant sculptor,
但是她的出身却很高贵 她来自皮克罗米尼（Piccolomini）家族 but she came from a proud, old family, the Piccolomini.
所以她的下巴很结实 So her jaw is firm,
樱桃小嘴正在说话 the rosebud mouth is in the act of speaking,
神情却不怎么谦恭 and not deferentially.
（雕塑）所有的一切都是在为定义女性气质而服务 Everything that was supposed to define womanhood,
端庄 贞洁 素静 demure, chaste serenity,
都揉和在Costanza身上 is junked for Costanza.
她富有野性 She's a wild thing,
雕刻家也为其特质所倾倒 and the sculptor is hooked on her temper.
但并不是Costanza的这种特质最终毁灭了贝尼尼 But it's not Costanza's temper that would end up undoing Bernini.
毁灭他的人是他自己 It was his own.
尽管贝尼尼表面上是温文尔雅 Despite all the genteel charm, Bernini was known to have a low boiling point.
但是他的容忍度却很低 Underneath all those social graces
在内心深处他就是一个残忍的那不勒斯匪徒 was the bloodthirsty temper of a Neapolitan gangster.
而且在一个难以置信的时刻 他爆发了 And in one unbelievably shocking episode, he lets it rip.
事情源自一个谣言 It started with a rumour.
传言说Costanza可不怎么constant（永恒 意即花心） Costanza, it's whispered, was not so constant after all.
好像她与贝尼尼兄弟有一腿 Seems she has a thing about the Bernini boys,
因为她不只和吉安·劳伦佐睡觉 since she's sleeping not just with Gian Lorenzo,
而且还和他的弟弟路易吉睡觉 but with his younger brother, Luigi.
路易吉·贝尼尼 是皮特洛·贝尼尼的儿子
是个雕刻家 不错的建筑师 优秀的数学家
噢 我知道难以使人们相信 Oh, it's hard to believe, I know,
事情怎会是这么巧 that anyone would want to get their hands on anyone except Mr Fabulous himself.
但是谣言会是真的吗？ But could the rumours be true?
于是在一个夜晚 贝尼尼设下了一个圈套 The trap is set that evening.
吉安·劳伦佐神情自然的说第二天要去向下 Gian Lorenzo says breezily how he has to go off to the country the next day,
所以他将不会在城镇的家里 so he won't be in town.
但是他肯定没有去乡下 对吧 But he doesn't go into the country, does he?
相反 第二天清早 他去了Costanza的家 Instead, early next morning, he goes to Costanza's house
然后就守株待兔 and waits.
路易吉现身了 Costanza也出现了 Luigi emerges. So does Costanza.
贝尼尼充满爱意创作的雕塑上鼓鼓的胸部 That swelling breast Bernini had lovingly carved
此时却由于充满热情的拥抱被压的变平了 flattened against Luigi's chest in a passionate embrace.
于是就出现了一场街道追逐战 There's a chase through the streets,
他们穿过广场 奔越桥梁 一直跑到圣彼得教堂 across the piazzas, over the bridges, right into Saint Peter's itself.
正是在那里 这座教堂的建筑师拼命要杀死自己的亲兄弟 Where its official architect does his best to murder his own brother.
吉安·劳伦佐抓起一根铁棍朝路易吉抡了过去 Gian Lorenzo grabs an iron bar and smashes it against Luigi's body,
两根肋骨被打断了 breaking two ribs.
作为一名“奇迹”的创造者 他闻名遐迩 He's famous as a miracle worker.
但这次的奇迹却是自己的亲兄弟并没有被自己杀死 This time the miracle is that he hasn't killed his own brother.
他母亲给教会警察写了一封信要求把两兄弟分开 It takes a message from their mother to the papal cops to separate them.
他怒气冲天 失去了理智
他带着配剑进了教堂 这完全是对上帝的不尊敬
但是事情还没有结束 And that's not the end of it.
那天下午 吉安·劳伦佐派了一个仆人去Costanza家里 That afternoon, Gian Lorenzo sends a servant to Costanza's house.
他没有割断她的喉咙 相反 她的娇脸被打的伤痕累累 He doesn't cut her throat. Instead, he slashes her perfect face to ribbons.
看来这个从石头中寻找美丽的家伙通过鞭打肉体去摧毁之 So the man who has cut stone to create beauty has cut flesh to destroy it.
但是你知不知道因为这次蓄意伤害他人身体和蓄意谋杀 And what do you suppose is Bernini's punishment
贝尼尼得到了什么惩罚吗？ for grievous bodily harm and attempted murder?
噢 真是个“重”罚啊 3000斯库迪罚款 Oh, a really stiff sentence, a 3,000 scudi fine.
只可惜他的教皇哥们儿最终放弃了这笔罚款 Except that his pal, the Pope, waives it.
教皇说道 胡闹 完全是胡闹嘛 下不为例啊 ''Naughty, naughty,'' says the Pope, ''This mustn't happen again.
所以我惩罚你 你得去结婚 ''So I sentence you to be married."
而且顺便说一下 这个女子可是全罗马最漂亮的 ''And, by the way, she just happens to be the most beautiful girl in Rome."
教皇朝他挤了挤眼 用肘推了推他 这样你就不会再去胡闹了 ''That should keep you out of mischief.'' Papal wink, papal nudge.
所以贝尼尼就娶了一个罗马律师的女儿 卡蒂丽娜·特西奥 So Bernini is married off to Caterina Tezio, daughter of a Roman lawyer.
而其他当事人 弟弟路易吉被流放到了波洛尼亚 For his part in the fight, brother Luigi is banished to Bologna.
每个人都进了监狱 那个行凶的仆人 Everyone else goes to jail. The servant who did the razor job
还有招致灾祸的Costanza自己 and, insult added to injury, Costanza herself,
以通奸和乱伦判了罪 convicted of fornication and adultery.
那座雕塑怎么样了呢 And what happened to the bust?
贝尼尼的新夫人当然不想把它摆在家里 Well, Bernini's new wife wouldn't have it in the house.
当然吉安·劳伦佐也不想 因为他见了雕塑就不舒服 Which is just as well, since Gian Lorenzo couldn't bear to look at it, either.
我想他可能会砸了它 He might, I suppose, have smashed it.
但是幸运的是 来自佛罗伦萨梅第奇家族的买家适时出手买下了它 But luckily, a Medici buyer from Florence snapped it up.
这就是为什么我们能在佛罗伦萨的巴尔杰洛国立博物馆看到它的缘故 Which is why we're looking at it here in the Bargello Museum in Florence.
曾经的Costanza对于我们来说 已经成为了永恒 The Costanza that once was, and, for us, always will be.
也许你认为 我才不管他的雕塑技术有高 And you're thinking, ''I don't care how good his sculpture is.
他的艺术作品有多重要我也不在乎 ''I don't care how important his art is."
这丫儿就是混蛋一个 ''What an absolute bastard!"
你可别告诉我他最后没有受到惩罚 ''Please tell me he doesn't get off scot-free.''
好吧 其实挺奇怪的 Well, strangely enough, it's exactly from this moment of the crime against Costanza
正是从Costanza案件以后 不可侵犯的骑士先生开始走霉运了 that things go swiftly downhill for the Cavaliere Untouchable.
而且霉运还是从与贝尼尼密切相关的地方开始的 And it all went wrong in the place that mattered most for Bernini.
这个地方对于他来说就是成也萧何败也萧何 The place that made or broke artists and architects.
那就是圣彼得大教堂 The Cathedral of Saint Peter's.
这是我们所知道的圣彼得大教堂的正面 This is the facade of Saint Peter's we all know,
但是17世纪的教皇们都有着过了头的自信心 but the aggressively confident 17th century popes
他们不知道适可而止 didn't want to stop with this..
他们希望在两个拐角处即我们现在看到的大钟上方再建造两处大钟塔 They wanted two great bell towers at each corner, above where we now see the clocks.
不管怎么说 这些大钟将会为他们唤来忠诚 It was those bells, after all, that would summon the faithful for papal blessings
因此基督教的梦想也就显得更为真实了 and make the Christian dream real.
但是米开朗基罗的大穹顶却处于中部 But in the middle, of course, was Michelangelo's great dome.
所以刚开始钟塔的设计高度都相对比较低 So the first designs for the towers made them respectfully low.
只有一层高 建造起来就比较有把握 也很结实 Safe, squat, one-storey affairs.
等贝尼尼来了以后 他天生就具有叛逆个性 The along comes Bernini, constitutionally incapable of deference.
他说 我建造的钟塔将会比这个穹顶高的多 ''My towers are going to be taller than your dome'', he says.
事实上有三层高 Three storeys tall, in fact.
自基座算起足足有70米高 Almost 70 metres above the original pedestals,
是原先设计总重量的六倍 six times heavier than the original towers.
但问题在于贝尼尼设计的钟塔地基比较松软 Problem was, though, Bernini's towers were about to be built on swampy ground.
在开始的时候他并不是不知道这个情况 It's not that Bernini didn't know about this before he got started.
那只是因为他周围的人都是唯他马首是瞻的阿谀奉承之辈 It's just that he's surrounded by yes men who tell him what he wants to hear.
但这还不是真正最重要的问题 That building tall towers on dodgy ground is no real problem.
真正最重要的问题他周围没有 What he needs are brutally honest advisors
敢于指出事情危险性的人 who aren't afraid of spelling out the risks he's taking.
当时确实有个人知道 There was one person who knew that building a tall, heavy tower
在不牢靠的地基上建造高塔是自找麻烦 on unstable foundations was asking for trouble.
那个人就是巴洛米尼 That person was Borromini.
但是性格高傲的贝尼尼是不会向对手寻求建议的 But it seemed to be beneath Bernini's dignity to ask his rival for advice.
所以 没有了巴洛米尼的批评性建议 So, without the benefit of Borromini's criticism,
贝尼尼正一步步迈向灾难 Bernini sails straight into disaster.
1641年7月 贝尼尼向世人展示了建好的第一座钟塔 In July, 1641, Bernini unveiled his first tower to the public.
两个月后 裂缝出现了 Two months later, cracks start to appear.
贝尼尼开始卧床不起 不吃不喝 Bernini takes to his bed. Won't eat.
这次他病的可不轻 据说都快死了 Gets so ill, he's reported near death.
但是事情变得更糟糕了 It gets worse.
裂缝不仅仅是出现在钟塔的基座上 The cracks aren't just in the foundation of the bell tower.
它们开始蔓延到主教堂了 They've spread to the facade of the main church itself.
那些反对贝尼尼的人开始落井下石痛打落水狗
他们说教堂正面出现的裂缝是由于钟塔的移位造成的
而这一切都是因为教皇把工作交给了一个人
对于这些类似的议论 最好的回应就是保持缄默
这些人试图对教皇施加影响
1644年 灾难出现了 Then, in 1644, disaster.
贝尼尼的好朋友 塔楼最坚定的支持者 Pope Urban VIII, Bernini's friend
乌尔班八世去世了 and the staunchest supporter of the bell tower, dies.
新教皇英诺森十世上任了 There's a new pope, Innocent X,
而且他还把除去包括贝尼尼在内的旧有势力视为己任 and he sees it as his job to get rid of all the old favourites, like Bernini.
不管怎样 他喜欢的是巴洛米尼 After all, he has a new favourite, Francesco Borromini.
所以 在贝尼尼的阴影下生活了15年之后 So, after 15 years in Bernini's shadow,
巴洛米尼复仇的时刻到来了 Borromini's moment for revenge has at last arrived.
针对贝尼尼的塔楼 一场调查开始了 An inquiry is set up to deal with Bernini's towers.
巴洛米尼提供了详尽的证据 Borromini submits detailed evidence,
贝尼尼的灾难终于来临了 a lovingly-rendered drawing of Bernini's disaster.
巴洛米尼说 好吧 你这么做到底是想怎样呢 ''Well, what do you expect?'' says Borromini.
塔楼设计的这么高 对于地基来说太重了 ''The tower's too tall. It's too heavy for its base supports."
设计的塔楼也很不实用 怎么能建在烂泥上呢 ''It's too unwieldy. It's built recklessly on swampy ground."
不管怎么说 它现在还没倒塌真是个奇迹 ''It's amazing, actually, it hasn't collapsed already."
看来在倒塌之后得往下挖挖 ''It's all very well going digging beneath the tower after the event
看看问题究竟有多严重 to see how serious the damage is."
如果他要是征求过我的意见就好了 因为对于建筑我还略知一二 ''If he'd have asked me, since I know a bit about building,
那么我就会告诉他真相 但是他没有这么做 I would've told him. But he didn't.''
1646年2月23日 在梵蒂冈召开了一次会议 On the 23rd of February, 1646, a meeting was held at the Vatican
来讨论贝尼尼建造的南边塔楼的命运 to discuss the fate of Bernini's south tower.
但是教皇已经有了决定 But the Pope had already made his decision.
扒了它 Demolish it.
这个过程花了11个月 The demolition takes 11 months.
如果贝尼尼在圣彼得教堂附近的话 他肯定会知道的 If Bernini had been anywhere near Saint Peter's, he would've seen it and heard it.
绞盘 滑轮 柱子都堆在屋顶上 The winches, the pulleys, the columns stacked on the roof.
塔楼倒了 吉安·劳伦佐 ·贝尼尼也倒下了 Down came the bell tower, and down with it came Gian Lorenzo Bernini
从被万人敬仰的高度跌到一个供人嘲笑的笑柄 from the height of fame and reputation to something like a laughing stock.
那时是1648年 It's 1648.
由于时代标准的变更 已经50岁的贝尼尼显得老了 Bernini is 50, old by the standards of the time.
那么在屈辱中生活的他能度过难关吗 So how did he survive the humiliation?
一个前来参观的英国学生曾令他几近崩溃绝望 One visiting English student has him collapsing into despair.
如今的他仍旧能得到委任 He still does get commissions,
只不过委托人的地位不再显赫 but not from the biggest hitters in Rome.
他需要一个奇迹来挽回昔日的荣光 It would take a miracle now for him to redeem himself.
后来 那个奇迹真出现了 And then that miracle arrived.
那是一个难以令人置信的戏据性时刻 A moment of mind-boggling drama.
在神秘与猥亵之间徘徊 A moment that wavers between mystery and indecency.
被羽剑穿透的神人躯体 The body of a saint penetrated.
那支箭被拔了出来 准备再刺进去 The arrow withdrawn from its passage, poised to strike again.
但是她那种痛苦的表情却与欢愉难以区分 Her pain indistinguishable from pleasure.
在石垫上面那个喘气的女人 The gasping woman levitating, defying gravity
违反了重力飘飘欲飞 on rippling cushions of stone.
那么 会是谁在旁人都不敢的情况下 So, who was it then that gave Bernini the chance to portray a saint
给了贝尼尼机会来为圣人雕像呢 in a way no one else had ever dared?.
菲帝力克·柯尔纳罗主教是一个令人尊敬的赞助人 You can't imagine a more respectable patron than Cardinal Federico Cornaro,
他是一个古老贵族家族成员 who came from an old aristocratic clan that wanted to build a family chapel
这个家族要在维多利亚圣母大教堂建造一个家族用小礼拜堂 in the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria.
他很定知道阿维拉的圣特雷萨 每个人都知道 He would have known about Saint Teresa of Avila. Everyone did.
1582年她在西班牙故乡去世 She died in her native Spain in 1582.
但是有些事情（或许是很多事情） 让特雷萨有了圣徒的地位 But there was something, many things, actually, which made Teresa an awkward fit for sainthood.
尤其是她那飘飘欲飞的形象 Not least her levitations.
一种狂喜奔涌而来 A rapture came over me so suddenly,
好像我也快要飞起来了 it almost lifted me out of myself.
我仿佛听到有人在说话 I heard these words,
现在 我想让你要和天使而不是凡人说话 ''Now, I want you to speak not with men, but with angels. ''
这并不令人惊讶 对于所有的现代圣人来说 It's not surprising, then, that of all the modern saints,
只有特雷萨修女仍然没有为她而建的礼拜堂 it was Teresa who still had no chapel devoted to her.
柯尔纳罗王朝 是如同赤脚托钵僧一样的 The Cornaro dynasty, who were patrons of her austere order of nuns,
遵循简朴秩序的特雷萨修女的赞助人 the Barefoot Carmelites,
他突然蹦出来为贝尼尼带来了最大的挑战 jumped in and presented Bernini with the biggest challenge of his career,
但同时也是一个重拾荣光的机会 but also the chance for a spectacular comeback.
对于他或者其他艺术史上的雕刻家来说 It was the most daring drama of the body that he,
这个剧情设想是如此大胆 or any other sculptor in the history of art,
其构思简直是前无古人后无来者 更别提去实施了 had ever conceived, much less executed.
贝尼尼肯定知道关于圣人特雷萨的事迹 Bernini would certainly have known about Saint Teresa.
她的自传是天主教罗马的畅销书 Her autobiography was a bestseller in Catholic Rome.
就像其他人一样 贝尼尼被朴实直接的故事情节震撼了 Like everyone else, he would've been startled by the earthy directness of her story.
但最重要的是 But above all, he would have been electrified by those moments
这些描述特雷萨的故事情节 in which Teresa, in the most graphic words imaginable,
令他热血沸腾兴奋异常 describes what happens to her
就在我面前 一个凡人化为了天使 Very close to me, an angel appeared in human form.
在他的手里握着一支金矛 In his hands I saw a large golden spear.
而在矛尖上 仿佛有点火光 And at its iron tip, there seemed to be a point of fire.
我感觉到这只矛好像对着我的心脏刺了好几次 I felt as if he plunged this into my heart several times,
以致于我的五脏六腑全被刺穿了 so that it penetrated all the way to my entrails.
当他把矛拔出来时 仿佛把内脏也带出来了 When he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out with it,
而且它让我感觉到一种对上帝炽烈的热爱 and it left me totally inflamed with a great love for God.
剧痛令我呻吟不已 The pain was so severe that it made me moan several times.
在这个时刻 如果说世界上还有一种事物与贝尼尼无关的话 Now, if there was one thing that Bernini was not,
那就是残忍了 it was crude.
他很明了当特雷萨兴奋异常时 He understood perfectly well that when Teresa wrote of her raptures,
她一定是在渴望自己的灵魂能与上帝达成完美的统一 she meant the longing of her soul for a consummated union with God.
这就是她想要表达出来的东西 It was the way she wrote about it
那会使得她的灵魂与肉体成为一体 that made it seem as if her soul and her body were the same thing.
贝尼尼创作的伟大雕塑中的躯体都是身体扭曲盘旋上升的 All of Bernini's greatest body dramas had featured figures twisting in ascent.
就像从地狱逃出来的普罗塞耳皮娜 Proserpina's flight from Pluto.
想摆脱成为石头的达夫妮欲腾空而去 Daphne rising to the sky as if to escape stony doom.ear.
现在是让特雷萨飞天的时候了 Now it was time for him to make Teresa levitate.
然而这次的飞翔并没有突破什么禁锢 而是一种渴望 This time, not in escape from penetration, but in craving for it.
该是忘记不好意思的时候了 It was time to forget about euphemisms.
此时贝尼尼传达特雷萨的感情洪流 The only way that Bernini
用的唯一方法就是 could possibly communicate the flood of her sensation
把他对身体兴奋反应的知识可视化 was to make visible what he knew of bodily ecstasy.
这是一张处于性高潮时的女性脸庞 The face of a woman at the height of sexual euphoria.
贝尼尼这就好像是在 It's as if he's turning his own intimate knowledge of carnal sin
把自己关于性的知识转化为一种肉欲的祝福 into carnal blessing.
当然 这并不是真正的特雷萨 So, of course, this isn't the real Teresa, middle-aged nun, rising up her cell wall
她是个与众多像她那样遵守清规戒律的中年修女 with sisters hanging on to her habit.
然而 这个女性的美丽却令人难忘 No, this woman is unforgettably beautiful.
与她在一起的爱人是优雅美丽的六翼天使 A match for the exquisite seraph angel lover.
以他们来看 他们就是一对夫妻 They are, in their way, a couple.
笑脸顺着箭冲着的不是她的胸部 Smiley face is pointing his arrow not at her breast at all,
而是雕像的下方 but rather lower down the torso.
但是怎样才能 But how to make visible both their union
把二人的交融和特雷萨澎湃的情感展现在人们面前呢 and the tide of engulfing feeling washing through Teresa?
贝尼尼对这件作品有着独到的见解 And here Bernini has the crucial insight of the whole piece.
他把特雷萨的躯体扭过来 He turns her body inside out,
这样一来她身上的披毯 她的生活习性 贞洁与封闭的修女身份特征 so that her covering, her habit, the symbol of chastity and containment,
成为了其内心变化的一种展示 becomes a representation of what's going on inside her.
它们使她的无助转化为上帝赐予的福佑 It's the accomplice of her helpless dissolution into a liquid bliss.
事实上 这就是高潮 It is, in fact, the climax itself.
一场汹涌澎湃的情感风暴在她内心激荡翻腾 A storm surge of churning sensation, cresting and falling
好像连大理石也要融化了 as if the marble had been molten.
这些感情巨浪从天使的笑脸 And these billows pour themselves from the smiling angel
倾泻到特雷萨的披毯上 directly into Teresa's robe,
然后二人共同沐浴在 where they join an ocean of heaving waves
这场充满像大理石皱褶般的高潮之中 that folds into hollows and crevices,
就像汹涌的海浪不断拍打着海岸一样 like surf breaking on a shore.
再也不必去偷偷摸摸 There's nothing furtive about any of this.
贝尼尼想让我们看见 真真切切的看见 Bernini wants us to look and look hard.
当他在创作时 So much, that he surrounds the performance with an audience,
柯尔纳罗家族的人就在旁边 members of the Cornaro family.
他们有的在只是在观看 有些则在议论其中蕴含的意思 Some watching the show, some chatting about what it might mean.
那里有各种舞台灯光 有的类似日光 有的则置于雕像后面 There's every kind of show lighting, fake sun beams, hidden lights at the back.
而且 当特雷萨最终升天时 大地都为之震动 And, as Teresa climbs to her heights, the earth really does move.
往下看 Look down here.
地面裂开了 地下的死者也露出来了 The ground is opening and out pop the dead.
大地在震动摇晃 Everything is shaking and quaking,
甚至小礼拜堂的柱子仿佛也在晃动 even the columns of the little chapel.
对于那些批评说贝尼尼不懂建筑的人 And here, Bernini adds the coup de grace to all those critics
贝尼尼给出了有力的还击 who said he couldn't do architecture.
尤其是巴洛米尼 他擅长于那些奇异的 违反直觉的凸起与曲线 Not least Borromini, who specialised in weird, counter-intuitive bulges and curves.
他曾经雄心勃勃想要建造的圣彼得大教堂塔楼 The most ambitious thing he'd ever attempted, the bell tower of Saint Peter's,
最终灰飞烟灭 had come crashing down in ignominious failure.
如今该是特雷萨让贝尼尼重新崛起的时候了 Now, it was time for Teresa to rise up, and carry with her
昔日的荣光将会再次笼罩在贝尼尼骑士身上 the resurrected reputation of the disgraced Cavaliere Bernini.
当他刻完最后一凿 And you feel him, when he's done,
你会感觉到他好像边退后边说 好吧 腾飞吧 standing back and saying, ''Right, top that''.
没有人能够如此 No one ever could.
柯尔纳罗家族对这个礼拜堂宠爱有加 The Cornaro loved their chapel.
酬劳是12000斯库迪 贝尼尼绝对值这个价 12,000 scudi, no problem, worth every scudo.
好事传千里 荣光复又回 Word got round. The dazzler was back.
即便是陈腐的英诺森十世也开始对他另眼相待了 Even the sour, old Pope Innocent X began to sweeten on Bernini,
巴洛米尼则躲在罗马教廷的廊间闷闷不乐 as Borromini skulked unhappily through the Vatican corridors.
这并不意味者巴洛米尼以后就得不到委任了 It's not that Borromini never gets commissions from the Pope again,
而是二人之间的战斗贝尼尼最终取得了胜利 it's just that it was Bernini who triumphed.
所以如今无论你身处罗马何方 你将会发现骑士贝尼尼的作品无处不在 So wherever you go in Rome now, you're really in the Cavaliere's city.
教皇们你方唱罢我登场 但是贝尼尼却是一如既往 Popes came and went, but Bernini endured.
他抛弃罪恶成为了虔诚的基督徒 养育了11个孩子 He gave up sinning, became a model Christian, fathered 11 children.
他们说贝尼尼此后再也没有迷失过 Never strayed again, they said.
那么其他故事人物都怎么样了呢 And what of the others in this story?
在被扣上绿帽子的丈夫的帮助下 Costanza with the cut-up face eventually got out of jail
破了相的Costanza被释放了 with the help of her long-suffering husband.
巴洛米尼继续做他的建筑大师 Borromini went on to become the great master builder
继续建造更多古怪而又卓越的教堂 of ever more eccentric and brilliant churches.
但是到了最后 他终于认识到贝尼尼从来都没有认同他 But in the end, he never really felt he got true recognition
而且最终也没有从贝尼尼回归带来的打击中恢复过来 and he never got over Bernini's comeback.
嫉妒和失望不断侵噬着他的灵魂 最终他自杀了 Eaten up by jealousy and disappointment, he ended up by committing suicide.
那么他的兄弟路易吉呢 And what of brother Luigi?
在被放逐后他又回到了罗马 Well, he returned to Rome after his exile
那时他已经快60岁了 and, deep into his 60s, he was at it again.
这回他又犯了事儿被当场抓住了 This time caught in flagrante delicto in.
是在圣彼得大教堂区域里面 The precincts of the holy church of Saint Peter's.
法庭的记录表明 Where, according to court records,
他由于暴力鸡奸被逮捕了 he was arrested for acts of violent sodomy.
为了家族的名誉 贝尼尼为弟弟得到一个教皇的宽恕 To clear the family name and secure a papal pardon for his brother,
这就是贝尼尼付出的代价 Bernini created this,
受祝福的卢多维卡·亚伯托尼 the Blessed Ludovica Albertoni.
对于我来说 尽管罗马的那些卖弄性的作品中没有一件 For me, though, none of those grandstanding jobs in Rome
接近贝尼尼宣称的那件作品 come close to the one work he called,
为什么呢 因为一直以来对于那些我们渴望的东西（无形） Why? Because he's managed to make visible, tangible, actually,
他都设法把这些事物真切可见的（有形的雕塑）呈现在我们面前 something we all, if we're honest, know we hunger for,
而这些事物通常我们不能用言语来表达 but before which we're properly tongue-tied.
如果硬要用言语来表达的话 Something which has produced more bad writing,
可能会出现更多的你能想得出的拙劣作品 more excruciating poems than anything else you can think of.
毫不奇怪 当艺术史学家们看着它的时候 No wonder, when art historians look at this,
他们会全身心的去体会而不会去多说什么 they tie themselves in knots to avoid saying the obvious.
而我们看到的则是在生与死之间的一出 That we're looking at the most intense, convulsive drama of the body
激烈的 澎湃的 扭曲痉挛的身体戏剧 that any of us experience between birth and death.
那并不是说我们看到的只是性爱过程中的化学反应 Which is not to say that what we're looking at is just a spasm of erotic chemistry.
这是因为它本来就不是那样子 It's precisely because it isn't just that.
因为那是一种肉体的渴望与 Because it is somehow a fusion of physical craving
（或者用我们的话来说是）精神或者情感的升华的融合 and, choose your word, spiritual or emotional transcendence,
这也正是贝尼尼凿下“圣人特雷萨的沉迷” that Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
之所以能攫住观众的心的原因 is a sculpture that possesses the beholder completely,
而且看的越久就陷的越深 the longer we stare.
所以当18世纪的法国艺术鉴赏家 So, perhaps, when that 18th-century French connoisseur
看到这尊雕塑时会说 looked at Teresa and said,
如果那就是神圣的爱情的话 我想我已经体会到了 ''If that's divine love, I know it well',
他其实并不是在开一个狡猾的玩笑 he wasn't making a sly joke at all,
而是对贝尼尼表示他的敬意 but doffing his hat to Bernini for using the power of art
因为一直以来贝尼尼都在运用艺术的力量来完成世界上最困难最美好的事情 to make the most difficult, the most desirable thing in the world.
让人们都能看到上帝的赐福 the visualisation of pure bliss.