The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini

The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Title The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini PDF eBook
Author Domenico Bernini
Publisher Penn State Press
Pages 500
Release 2012-01-31
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 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

Bernini
Title Bernini PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 321
Release 1990
Genre
ISBN

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Title Gian Lorenzo Bernini PDF eBook
Author Rudolf Wittkower
Publisher
Pages 320
Release 1981
Genre Art
ISBN

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Bernini

Bernini
Title Bernini PDF eBook
Author Franco Mormando
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 452
Release 2013-04-02
Genre Art
ISBN 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.

Selected Drawings of Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Selected Drawings of Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Title Selected Drawings of Gian Lorenzo Bernini PDF eBook
Author Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Publisher
Pages 132
Release 1977
Genre Art
ISBN

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This collection contains 106 of Bernini's finest drawings, from a third to a half of his surviving graphic output, drawings characterized by bold assurance and confidence, exquisite precision, brilliance, and subtlety. Included are not only preparatory sketches and designs for the above projects, but splendid figure studies, probing portraits and self-portraits, ingenious caricatures, designs for medals, and drawings for frontispieces. We see the whole range of this artist's draughtsmanship, form his first thoughts on numerous projects to finished works of art. The volume, arranged chronologically, begins with one of Bernini's earliest surviving drawings, the "Portrait of a Young Man" (c. 1615), a possible self-portrait, and ends with a caricature of Pope Innocent XI from the last years of the artist's life (1676-80). As Bernini grew more and more successful, he became in fact a designer rather than a maker of sculpture. The drawings take on a special importance as a key indication of Bernini's original intentions, the way he saw and created projects, which his assistants than executed with varying degrees of competence. -- From publisher's description.

The Artist and the Eternal City

The Artist and the Eternal City
Title The Artist and the Eternal City PDF eBook
Author Loyd Grossman
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 256
Release 2021-08-03
Genre History
ISBN 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.

Visible Spirit

Visible Spirit
Title Visible Spirit PDF eBook
Author Irving Lavin
Publisher Pindar Press
Pages 827
Release 2006-12-31
Genre Art
ISBN 1915837073

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As early as the 1950s, Professor Irving Lavin was recognized as a major voice in American art history. His sustained production of seminal scholarly contributions have left their mark on an astonishingly wide range of -subjects and fields. Bringing these far-reaching publications together will not only provide a valuable resource to scholars and -students, but will also underscore fundamental themes in the history of art - historicism, the art of commemoration, the relationship between style and meaning, the -intelligence of artists - themes that define the role of the visual arts in human communication. Irving Lavin is best known for his array of fundamental publications on the Baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). These include new discoveries and studies on the master's prodigious childhood, his architecture and -portraiture, his invention of caricature, his depictions of religious faith and political leadership, his work in the -theatre, his attitude toward death and the role of the artist in the creation of a modern sense of social responsibility. All of Professor Lavin's papers on Bernini are here brought together in three volumes. The studies have been reset and in many cases up-dated, and there is a comprehensive index.