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| Photo of the artist, Egon Schiele |
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| "The Embrace," painting by Schiele, 1917 |
From page 238 of the book: "...I plopped down on Sarah's bed and looked up to the wall where a reproduction of a painting by Schiele hung. I then turned my attention to a a book which lay on her end table and opened it to the title page: The Life of St. Theresa."
[The bodily distortions, explicit eroticism and anguish which made Egon Schiele’s artworks unpopular during his lifetime are the same features which make them so mesmerizing today. Schiele (1890 – 1918) was an exceptionally prolific Austrian Expressionist who was a protégé of Gustav Klimt, and whose formidable talents were fully matured when he was a teenager. He created emotionally charged self-portraits and allegories, but was best-known for his nude or semi-nude drawings of women, portraying them in awkwardly contracted poses to convey distress. Arrested for immorality and seduction, he created numerous watercolors and drawings during his two-week imprisonment. Dying prematurely from the Spanish flu, Schiele left a legacy of almost 3,500 compelling artworks.] Text copyright http://www.art.com/
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| "Self-portrait" by Schiele |
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| Title page, series on the Life of Saint Teresa, Antwerp, 1613, by Adriaen Collaert |
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| St. Theresa at left conversing with St. John of the Cross and Antony of Jesus, by A. Collaert and Cornelis Galle, 1613 |
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