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Bernini: His Life and His Rome
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The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini: A Translation and Critical Edition, with Introduction and Commentary, by Franco Mormando
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DescriptionGian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), sculptor, architect, painter, and playwright, was the most influential artist of seventeenth-century Rome and, indeed, one of the leading creative forces in European art for most of that century. He is universally recognized as one of the creators of the vastly popular Roman Baroque style, which was quickly disseminated throughout all of Europe. His influence lasted well beyond his death, and the popularity of his numerous works - fountains, statues, churches, and public squares - is today as great as it was during his own lifetime, if not more so. Domenico Bernini (1657-1723) was the artist's youngest child. Domenico's full-length biography of his famous father represents one of the most important and most intimate primary sources for the artist's life and work.In this edition, Franco Mormando presents the first critical translation in any language of the complete Italian text, together with annotated translations of two other significant but brief biographical sketches. Mormando provides a lengthy Introduction that closely examines the author and his career, his editorial agenda and critical reception, Baroque biography as a literary genre, the other extant primary sources, and the artistic vocabulary of early modern Europe, among other relevant topics. Extensive commentary accompanies and illuminates the text from a multiplicity of historical, linguistic, and cultural perspectives. This edition is, in effect, a one-volume encyclopedia on the artist s life and work. As such, it stands alone within the immense bibliography of Bernini scholarship.
Bernini
 List Price: Price: $26.10 You Save: $13.85 (35%) DescriptionGian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the most influential sculptor of his age. Inventive and skilled, he virtually created the Baroque style. In his religious sculptures he excelled at capturing movement and extreme emotion, uniting figures with their setting to create a single conception of overwhelming intensity that expressed the fervour of Counter-Reformation Rome. Intensity and drama also characterize his portraits and world-famous Roman fountains. This monograph provides an authoritative introduction to all aspects of Bernini's sculpture, while the full catalogue gives detailed information on his complete oeuvre.
The Impresario (Carleton Renaissance Plays in Translation)
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After we were given the warning to be silent, we all gathered inside near the Chigi Chapel, which was designed by Raphael and filled with works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, a 17th century sculptor — including the sculpture of a pyramid, a shape that plays
ANSA.itArts guide: exhibits in ItalyBargello: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, The Living Marbles; until July 12. - Palazzo Strozzi: Galileo show marking 400th anniversary of his first observations of the night sky; 250 exhibits including the middle finger from Galileo's right hand; until August 30
Seattle Post Intelligencer USA TODAY VATICAN CITY — The faithful stream into St. Peter 's Square on Christianity's holiest day, engulfing the Egyptian obelisk that centers the piazza so carefully planned by 17th-century sculptor and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini . 'Angels & Demons': Ridiculous, but don't miss it THE AMAZING RACE Angels & Demons: Unholy fun at last!
Telegraph.co.ukSculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini's artwork populates Rome and the Vatican; in the film, he is portrayed as a high-ranking member of the Illuminati. Since Bernini died in 1680 and Galileo died in 1642, both lived at least a century too early to have joined Rome's 'Angels & Demons' secrets Angels & Demons (Review)