Our cover illustration is a detail of Santa Teresa in Ecstasy by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the Cornaro Chapel of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome. The Chapel was fitted out for Cardinal Frederigo Cornaro (Corner in Venetian dialect) between 1647 and 1652. In a stucco empyrean which breaks out of the architectural frame set to contain it, is white marble sculpture of consummate skill and delicacy. The sculptor's son Dominico claimed that in this work his father had outdone himself and conquered art itself