Today, on another bright and sunny Photo Friday, we bring you an image taken by Susan Sanders on a trip to Naples. Titled McBlessed Ludovica, the photograph shows a sumptuous work of stencil art that is clearly a play on Bernini’s swooning 17th-century sculpture of Blessed Ludovica Albertoni (see below, found in the church of San Francesco a Ripa in Rome).
While in the original sculpture, the Blessed Ludovica is overcome by a transcendental encounter with the divine, our artist in Naples attributes her altered state to another source: the hands that clutch at her abdomen and the head thrown back in rapture seem to be a result of a super-sized communion with a meal from McDonalds.
For more photos by Susan, visit her blog: Rome With A View.
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