Noli me tangere

Another faithful collaborator of Bernini, several times the executant of the master's models (as in the Fountain of the Four Rivers), was Raggi, an attentive and meticulous sculptor. The Noli me tangere scene, too, forms part of a Berninian project, the Allaleona Chapel, one of the many proscenia for his fanciful evocations, of the same stamp as the Cornaro Chapel, which houses the Ecstasy of St. Teresa.