cornaro had chosen the hitherto unremarkable church of the discalced carmelites for his burial chapel. the selected site for the chapel was the left transept that had previously held an image of 'st. paul in ecstasy', which was replaced by bernini's dramatization of a religious experience undergone and related by the first discalced carmelite saint, who had been canonised not long before, in 1622. it was completed in 1652 for the then princely sum of 12,000 scudi.