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Item Number: 145807
Title: BERNINI
Author: Bacchi, Andrea ; Anna Coliva (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788899765569
Description: Milan: Officina Libraria, 2017. 28cm., hardcover, 368pp., 210 color illus. Exhibition held at Galleria Borghese, Rome. English edition.

Summary: Gianlorenzo Bernini's (1598-1680), architect, painter, but above all sculptor, had a careeer that spanned almost three quarters of a century. He worked under six different pope and was instrumental in the making of Baroque Rome, from the colonnade of St. Peter to the fountains in piazza Navona and piazza di Spagna, from the many stunning sculptural groups in the churches and palaces of Rome to the dozens of "speaking portraits" of cardinals, popes, kings and intellectuals of his times. The Galleria Borghese, home of many works by Bernini, including some of his world-famous groups such as Apollo and Daphne, The Rape of Proserpina and the David, hosts a major exhibition on the sculptures of Bernini. Exceptional in scope and scholarship, the catalogue analyses many different aspects of Bernini's output, focusing on the many innovations he introduced. It also devotes studies to the critical reception of Bernini and to his relationships with friends and patrons (a dictionary of them is at the end of the book).

Contents: Reasons of the Exhibition, Anna Coliva ; Apprentice with Pietro, Andrea Bacchi ; The Birth of a Genre: The Putti, Stefano Pierguidi ; Conservation, Donatella Sparti ; The Achievement of Fame as a Portraitist, Annelise Desmas ; Monumental Sculptures, Anna Coliva ; The Paintings, Luigi Ficacci ; The "Speaking" Portrait, Sarah C. McPhee ; The Work of the Sculptor (Drawings, Terracottas, Bronzes), Maria Giulia Barberini ; The Busts, Francesco Petrucci ; Critical Appraisal of Bernini in the 18th Century, Andrea Bacchi and Annelise Desmas ; Critical Appraisal of Bernini in the late 19th Century, Lucia Simonato ; Critical Appraisal of Bernini in the last three decades, Evonne Levy ; Dictionary of Friends and Patrons of Bernini, Vittoria Brunetti.

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