The work of Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) has virtually defined the Baroque style in the visual arts.

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Writer: Tod A. Marder

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ISBN: 0789201151

Category: Architecture

Folio: 343

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The work of Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) has almost defined the Baroque style in the visual arts. Bernini's famous Foursquare of St. Peter's and Scala Regia at the Vatican transformed the forecourt of the basilica and the vestibule of the Papal Palace into breathtaking theatrical sets. While Bernini is famous for his masterly integration of painting, sculpture, and architecture in one site -- in the Chapel of St. Teresa, for case -- most specialists tended to focus exclusively on his sculpture. T.A. Marder is the offset to create an extensive narrative because all of Bernini'southward architectural achievements and his art at these sites, forth with an estimation of their meaning. Full-color photography especially commissioned for this project shows the sites every bit they were meant to be seen in the 17th century; these pictures are complemented by relevant drawings and photos of related buildings by other architects. Professor Marder's lively text discusses the political and personal causes that shaped each commission, well as issues of structure, questions of estimation, and consideration of the sculpture programs in each commission.

Too Wittkower has produced an authoritative reconstruction of the era in Italia in his " Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750 " ( Pelican History of Fine art , Yale University Press , rev . ed . 3 vols . , 1999 ) — the newest revision by ...

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Writer: Robert Torsten Petersson

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

ISBN: 8887700834

Category: Fine art

Page: 150

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"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 bug and his innovative talents never faltered." "Likewise as presenting the brilliant, flamboyant Bernini, the book simultaneously displays Rome in the throes of its Counter-Reformation renewal, the second birth of the metropolis with the total panoply of its arts, culture, and abnormal activities during Bernini'due south years in the service of eight popes. In afterward life he expanded his fame by spending an eventful one-half year in Paris at the invitation of Louis XIV. The proud and touchy Bernini, and then the most celebrated artist in Europe, was in a pitched battle with the arrogant and aggressive French. However in Paris every bit in Rome it is the creative works that have lasted and are widely known as having redirected the class of European sculpture."--Book JACKET. Book jacket.

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Author: MARDER T. A.

Publisher:

ISBN: OCLC:606225048

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The piece was long believed to be a work from the ancient era, attesting to the fact that Bernini learned well his lessons from the antiquarian statuary he studied in the Vatican and Borghese collections. Bernini's Martyrdom of St.

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Author: Lilian H. Zirpolo

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN: 9781538111291

Category: Art

Page: 692

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This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Baroque Fine art and Architecture contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on famous artists, sculptors, architects, patrons, and other historical figures, and events.

Architecture and Politics at the Vatican Sarah McPhee. 1997. Powers Matchless : The Pontificate of Urban 8 , the Baldachin , and Gian Lorenzo Bernini . ... Bernini and the Art of Architecture . New York , 1998 . LASSELS , Richard .

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Author: Sarah McPhee

Publisher: Yale University Press

ISBN: 0300089821

Category: Compages

Page: 353

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In 1638, Gianlorenzo Bernini began the ambitious architectural project of designing and constructing massive twin bell towers atop St. Peter'south basilica. Only the project failed spectacularly. This book tells the story of the bell towers, presenting both visual and documentary evidence.

Every official pronouncement bears this out , offset with Urban Viii's well - known words , which he supposedly addressed to Bernini later ascending the papal throne . ' Information technology is your nifty skillful luck , Cavaliere , ' he is reported to ...

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Author: Rudolf Wittkower

Publisher: Yale University Printing

ISBN: 0300079400

Category: Art

Page: 198

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This classic survey of Italian Baroque art and architecture focuses on the arts in every center between Venice and Sicily in the early, loftier, and tardily Bizarre periods. The heart of the study, however, lies in the architecture and sculpture of the exhilarating years of Roman High Bizarre, when Bernini, Borromini, and Cortona were all at work under a series of enlightened popes. Wittkower'south text is now accompanied by a critical introduction and substantial new bibliography. This edition will also include color illustrations for the outset fourth dimension. This is the 2nd book in the three volume survey.

Essays in Architectural History Presented to Hellrnut Hager on His Sixty-sixth Birthday, edited by Henry A. Millon and ... Papers in Art History from The Pennsylvania State Academy, viii, pt. 1. ... Bernini and the Art of Architecture.

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Author: Claude Douglas Dickerson

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

ISBN: 9781588394729

Category: Terra-cotta sculpture, Italian

Page: 416

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"The brilliantly expressive clay models created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) as "sketches" for his works in marble offering extraordinary insights into his creative imagination. Although long admired, the terracotta models have never been the subject of such detailed examination. This publication presents a wealth of new discoveries (including show of the artist'south fingerprints imprinted on the clay), resolving lingering bug of attribution while giving readers a vivid sense of how the artist and his assistants fulfilled a steady stream of monumental commissions. Essays describe Bernini's didactics as a modeler; his arroyo to preparatory drawings; his use of assistants; and the response to his models by 17th-century collectors. All-encompassing research by conservators and fine art historians explores the different types of models created in Bernini's workshop. Richly illustrated, Bernini transforms our understanding of the sculptor and his distinctive and fascinating working methods."--Publisher's website.

Titian Remade: Repetition and the Transformation of Early Modern Italian Art. Los Angeles: Getty Research Establish. ... Bernini as the Seicento Michelangelo: Imitation and Identity in Art, Architecture, and Biography.

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Author: Carolina Mangone

Publisher: Yale Academy Printing

ISBN: 9780300247732

Category: Fine art

Folio: 288

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A novel exploration of the threads of continuity, rivalry, and self-witting borrowing that connect the Baroque innovator with his Renaissance paragon Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), like all ambitious artists, imitated eminent predecessors. What set him autonomously was his lifelong and multifaceted focus on Michelangelo Buonarroti—the master of the previous age. Bernini'south Michelangelo is the commencement comprehensive test of Bernini'south persistent and wide-ranging faux of Michelangelo's canon (his art and its rules). Prevailing accounts submit that Michelangelo'due south pervasive, yet controversial, example was overcome during Bernini's time, when information technology was rejected as an advantageous model for enterprising artists. Carolina Mangone reconsiders this view, demonstrating how the Bizarre innovator formulated his work by emulating his divisive Renaissance forebear's oeuvre. Such simulated earned him the moniker "Michelangelo of his historic period." Investigating Bernini's "imitatio Buonarroti" in its extraordinary scope and diverseness, this book identifies principles that pervade his production over seven decades in papal Rome. Close analysis of religious sculptures, tomb monuments, architectural ornament, and the blueprint of New Saint Peter's reveals how Bernini approached Michelangelo's fine art as a surprisingly flexible repertory of precepts and forms that he reconciled—here with daring license, at that place with artistic restraint—to the aesthetic, sacred, and theoretical imperatives of his own era. Situating Bernini'south faux in dialogue with that by other artists every bit well every bit with contemporaneous writings on Michelangelo's art, Mangone repositions the Renaissance master in the artistic concerns of the Bizarre from peripheral to pivotal. Without Michelangelo, at that place was no Bernini.

Marder, Bernini and the Fine art of Compages, 27–46. 11. Besides run into Baldacchino Study by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Reddish chalk and pen over black chalk, 14 1/two in. × 10 1/iv in. (36 cm × 26.3 cm). Gaphische Sammlung, Albertina, Vienna.

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Author: Alessandro Ayuso

Publisher: UCL Press

ISBN: 9781800081703

Category: Architecture

Page: 262

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Experiments with Torso Agent Compages puts frontward the notion of body agents: non-ideal, breathing and highly specific figures integrated with pattern to enact detail notions of embodied subjectivity in compages. Body agents present opportunities for architects to increase imaginative and empathic qualities in their designs, particularly amongst a posthuman status. Beginning with narrative writing from the viewpoint of a torso amanuensis, an estranged 'quattrocento spiritello' who finds himself uncomfortably inhabiting a digital milieu (or, as the spiritello calls it, 'Il Regno Digitale'), the book combines speculative historical fiction and original design experiments. Information technology focuses on the process of creating the multi-media design experiments, moving from the design of the body itself every bit an original prosthetic to architectural proposals emanating from the body. A fragmented history of the effigy in architecture is charted and woven into the designs, with chapters examining Michelangelo'southward enigmatic figures in his drawings for the New Sacristy in the early sixteenth century, Gian Lorenzo Bernini's physically ephemeral 'putti' adorning chapels and churches in the seventeenth century, and Austrian artist-architect Walter Pichler's personal and prescient figures of the twentieth century.

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Author: Rudolf Wittkower

Publisher: Puffin Books

ISBN: UOM:39015040143474

Category: Architecture

Page: 664

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