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Author: Franco Mormando
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013-04-02
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 022605523X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfiles the whirlwind life of the famed Italian sculptor who is known for his artistic and architectural contributions to the city of Rome.
Author: PESTILLI
Publisher:
Published: 2022-03-21
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781848225497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBernini and His World is a unique exploration of Gian Lorenzo Bernini the sculptor, offering new insights into the artist including discussions of his stylistic innovations and the ways he approached sculpture. Placing his life and work within a social, anthropological and historical context, Pestilli gives a fascinating and in-depth account of the artist, from the Rome in which he lived and its reception to foreign sculptors to the myth-making aspects of his biographies, and his critics. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this engagingly written book draws on a deep familiarity with both historic and modern Italian culture to give readers a vivid account of sculpture and sculptors in early modern Rome and Bernini's lasting legacy.
Author: Andrea Zanella
Publisher: Palombi Editori
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9788876217807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Domenico Bernini
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2012-01-31
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 0271037490
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.
Author: Rudolf Wittkower
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tod A. Marder
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780789201157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe work of Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) has virtually defined the Baroque style in the visual arts. Bernini's famous Square of St. Peter's and Scala Regia at the Vatican transformed both locations into breathtaking theatrical sets, and Bernini's career featured a masterly integration of painting, sculpture, and architecture in one site. 280 color illustrations.
Author: Robert Wallace
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Published: 1970
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Torsten Petersson
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9788887700831
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The vitality of Petersson's book is drawn directly from the sculpture of Bernini, an artist now regarded as the true successor of Michelangelo. It differs from others by bringing the reader inside the sculptural process, from genesis to completed form. Frequently Bernini had to solve uniquely interesting problems and his innovative talents never faltered." "As well as presenting the brilliant, flamboyant Bernini, the book simultaneously displays Rome in the throes of its Counter-Reformation renewal, the second birth of the city with the full panoply of its arts, culture, and aberrant activities during Bernini's years in the service of eight popes. In later life he expanded his fame by spending an eventful half year in Paris at the invitation of Louis XIV. The proud and touchy Bernini, then the most celebrated artist in Europe, was in a pitched battle with the arrogant and aggressive French. Yet in Paris as in Rome it is the artistic works that have lasted and are widely known as having redirected the course of European sculpture."--BOOK JACKET. Book jacket.
Author: Loyd Grossman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-08-03
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1643137417
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
