Main entry:

Avery, Charles (Art historian), author.

Title & Author:

Bernini : genius of the Baroque / Charles Avery ; special photography by David Finn.

Edition:

First North American edition.

Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown and Company, [1997].
©1997

Description:

287 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 32 cm

Notes:
"A Bulfinch Press book."
"All quotations from Baldinucci are taken from the English translation by Catherine and Robert Enggass ..."--Page 8.
Includes reproduction of a drawing owned by the Morgan Library of Cardinal Scipione Borghese (p. 86).
NNPM
Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-285) and index.
(from table of contents) Prologue: 'Padre scultore'--Pietro Bernini and his studio -- Father and son: Pietro and Gianlorenzo in partnership -- Coming of age: the first portraits -- The great mythological groups: Aeneas, Proserpina and Daphne -- The patronage of Urban VIII Barberini -- Popes and prelates: the mature portraits -- Architect to St Peter's: the Baldacchino and Cathedra Petri -- The papal tombs: Bernini and the Dance of Death -- Mystic vision: the later religious sculpture -- 'Friend of the waters': Bernini's Roman fountains -- Bernini's buildings: the sculptor as architect -- England and France: Bernini, servant of kings -- Genius of the Baroque: talents and techniques -- Epilogue: Bernini the man--life, death and reputation.

Summary:

Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the presiding genius of the Italian Baroque. As a sculptor, he produced a host of exhilarating works -- the Ecstasy of St. Teresa, David, Apollo and Daphne, The Rape of Proserpina, among others -- that seem to breathe with life. As an architect, he created the interior of St. Peter's in Vatican City as we know it today -- the ornate shrines and monuments under the dome, the papal tombs, and encircling colonnades of the Piazza San Pietro itself -- as well as churches and numerous fountains throughout Rome.
Drawing on much previously unpublished research, art historian Charles Avery rescues Bernini from critical neglect and offers a thoroughgoing reevaluation of this great artist's multifaceted career. Throughout, 400 illustrations, including eighty magnificent color plates, capture the richness of Bernini's work as never before -- and reveal many extraordinary details that are difficult to see even on the originals.

ISBN:

0821224654 hardcover
9780821224656 hardcover

Subject:

Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680.
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680 Criticism and interpretation.
Sculpture, Baroque.
Sculpture baroque.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680, artist.
Finn, David, 1921-2021, photographer.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 191541
Call No.: ID NA44.B528; ID:97-B2498
Status: Available