Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture
Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture

Author: Andrea Bacchi

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0892369329

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini was the greatest sculptor of the Baroque period, and yet—surprisingly—there has never before been a major exhibition of his sculpture in North America. Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture showcases portrait sculptures from all phases of the artist’s long career, from the very early Antonio Coppola of 1612 to Clement X of about 1676, one of his last completed works. Bernini’s portrait busts were masterpieces of technical virtuosity; at the same time, they revealed a new interest in psychological depth. Bernini’s ability to capture the essential character of his subjects was unmatched and had a profound influence on other leading sculptors of his day, such as Alessandro Algardi, Giuliano Finelli, and Francesco Mochi. Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture is a groundbreaking study that features drawings and paintings by Bernini and his contemporaries. Together they demonstrate not only the range, skill, and acuity of these masters of Baroque portraiture but also the interrelationship of the arts in seventeenth-century Rome.

Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture
Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture

Author: Andrea Bacchi

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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Bernini's portrait busts were masterpieces of technical virtuosity while, at the same time, they revealed a new interest in psychological depth. This illustrated study features drawings and paintings by Bernini and his contemporaries that demonstrates their unrivalled range, skill, and acuity.

Bernini
Bernini

Author: Franco Mormando

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2013-04-02

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 022605523X

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Profiles the whirlwind life of the famed Italian sculptor who is known for his artistic and architectural contributions to the city of Rome.

The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini
The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Author: Domenico Bernini

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2012-01-31

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 0271037490

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"A critical translation of the unabridged Italian text of Domenico Bernini's biography of his father, seventeenth-century sculptor, architect, painter, and playwright Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). Includes commentary on the author's data and interpretations, contrasting them with other contemporary primary sources and recent scholarship"--Provided by publisher.

Bernini's Beloved
Bernini's Beloved

Author: Sarah McPhee

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780300175271

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With lips slightly parted and eyes fixed on a point in the distance, a breathtaking marble portrait of Costanza Piccolomini appears alive. Carved by Gianlorenzo Bernini in 1636-37 for his own pleasure, the portrait of Costanza is one of his most captivating works, but until now little has been known about its subject. For centuries Costanza was identified only as Bernini's mistress, who later incited his rage by betraying him for his brother. Author Sarah McPhee corrects and expands this story in her remarkable biography of a sculpture and its subject. Bernini's Beloved sets the bust and Costanza's own life--her childhood and noble name, her marriage, affair, fall from grace, and recovery--against the backdrop of Baroque Rome. Beautifully illustrated and written, this fascinating story expands our understanding of the woman whose intelligence and passion served as inspiration for Bernini's celebrated sculpture, and who courageously forged a life for herself in the decades following its creation.

Italian Baroque Sculpture
Italian Baroque Sculpture

Author: Bruce Boucher

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780500203071

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Italian baroque sculpture often has been criticized for portraying a sham world, distracting the spectator from its spiritual poverty by dazzling technical displays. Bruce Boucher offers a fresh view of this rich and varied subject, published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the births of 17th-century artists Bernini and Algardi. 200 illustrations. 35 in color.

The Artist and the Eternal City
The Artist and the Eternal City

Author: Loyd Grossman

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-08-03

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1643137417

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This brilliant vignette of seventeenth-century Rome, its Baroque architecture, and its relationship to the Catholic Church brings to life the friendship between a genius and his patron with an ease of writing that is rare in art history. By 1650, the spiritual and political power of the Catholic Church was shattered. Thanks to the twin blows of the Protestant Reformation and the Thirty Years War, Rome—celebrated both as the Eternal City and Caput Mundi (the head of the world)—had lost its preeminent place in Europe. Then a new Pope, Alexander VII, fired with religious zeal, political guile, and a mania for creating new architecture, determined to restore the prestige of his church by making Rome the key destination for Europe's intellectual, political, and cultural elite. To help him do so, he enlisted the talents of Gianlorenzo Bernini, already celebrated as the most important living artist—no mean feat in the age of Rubens, Rembrandt, and Velazquez.

Baroque Sculpture in Rome
Baroque Sculpture in Rome

Author: Alessandro Angelini

Publisher: 5Continents

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13:

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Reconsidering the terminology art historians use to describe 17th-century Roman sculpture, this history examines how famous artists, such as Bernini, Alessandro Algardi, François Duquesnoy, and lesser-known artists influenced one another during this period. Artistic events and completed works are presented in chronological order with an emphasis on the workshop relationships that allowed accomplished sculptors to apprentice younger artists. The use of Venetian-derived color, sublime accents, and travertine and marble that marked this era created a thoroughly modern Rome as statues and other examples of sculpture were placed in gardens, homes, and churches.