Bernini And The Excesses Of Art

Author : Robert Torsten Petersson
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9788887700831
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bernini and the Excesses of Art written by Robert Torsten Petersson and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 problems and his innovative talents never faltered." "As well as presenting the brilliant, flamboyant Bernini, the book simultaneously displays Rome in the throes of its Counter-Reformation renewal, the second birth of the city with the full panoply of its arts, culture, and aberrant activities during Bernini's years in the service of eight popes. In later life he expanded his fame by spending an eventful half year in Paris at the invitation of Louis XIV. The proud and touchy Bernini, then the most celebrated artist in Europe, was in a pitched battle with the arrogant and aggressive French. Yet in Paris as in Rome it is the artistic works that have lasted and are widely known as having redirected the course of European sculpture."--BOOK JACKET. Book jacket.

Author : Evonne Levy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317099486
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Material Bernini written by Evonne Levy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together established and emerging specialists in seventeenth-century Italian sculpture, Material Bernini is the first sustained examination of the conspicuous materiality of Bernini’s work in sculpture, architecture, and paint. The various essays demonstrate that material Bernini has always been tied (whether theologically, geologically, politically, or in terms of art theory) to his immaterial twin. Here immaterial Bernini and the historiography that sustains him is finally confronted by material Bernini. Central to the volume are Bernini’s works in clay, a fragmentary record of a large body of preparatory works by a sculptor who denied any direct relation between sketches of any kind and final works. Read together, the essays call into question why those works in which Bernini’s bodily relation to the material of his art is most evident, his clay studies, have been configured as a point of unmediated access to the artist’s mind, to his immaterial ideas. This insight reveals a set of values and assumptions that have profoundly shaped Bernini studies from their inception, and opens up new and compelling avenues of inquiry within a field that has long remained remarkably self-enclosed.

Author : MARDER T. A.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bernini & the Art of Architecture written by MARDER T. A. and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrea Bacchi
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892369329
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture written by Andrea Bacchi and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gian Lorenzo Bernini was the greatest sculptor of the Baroque period, and yet—surprisingly—there has never before been a major exhibition of his sculpture in North America. Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture showcases portrait sculptures from all phases of the artist’s long career, from the very early Antonio Coppola of 1612 to Clement X of about 1676, one of his last completed works. Bernini’s portrait busts were masterpieces of technical virtuosity; at the same time, they revealed a new interest in psychological depth. Bernini’s ability to capture the essential character of his subjects was unmatched and had a profound influence on other leading sculptors of his day, such as Alessandro Algardi, Giuliano Finelli, and Francesco Mochi. Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture is a groundbreaking study that features drawings and paintings by Bernini and his contemporaries. Together they demonstrate not only the range, skill, and acuity of these masters of Baroque portraiture but also the interrelationship of the arts in seventeenth-century Rome.

Author : Maarten Delbeke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317044401
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Religion written by Maarten Delbeke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernini and Pallavicino, the artist and the Jesuit cardinal, are closely related figures at the papal courts of Urban VIII and Alexander VII, at which Bernini was the principal artist. The analysis of Pallavicino's writings offers a new perspective on Bernini's art and artistry and allow us to understand the visual arts in papal Rome as a 'making manifest' of the fundamental truths of faith. Pallavicino's views on art and its effects differ fundamentally from the perspective developed in Bernini's biographies offering a perspective on the tension between artist and patron, work and message. In Pallavicino's writings the visual arts emerge as being intrinsically bound up with the very core of religion involving questions of idolatry, mimesis and illusionism that would prove central to the aesthetic debates of the eighteenth century.

Author : Daniele Pinton
Publisher : ATS Italia Editrice
ISBN 13 : 887571777X
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book BERNINI sculptor and architect written by Daniele Pinton and published by ATS Italia Editrice. This book was released on 2009 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Irving Lavin
Publisher : Pindar Press
ISBN 13 : 9781904597452
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visible Spirit written by Irving Lavin and published by Pindar Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 has left its 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 updated, and there is a comprehensive index. Volume II Contents: Bernini and Antiquity - The Baroque Paradox. A Poetical View Bernini's Portraits of No-Body Bernini's Bust of Francesco I d'Este. "Impresa quasi impossibile" Bernini's Bust of the Medusa: An Awful Pun Bernini's Bust of the Savior and the Problem of the Homeless in Seventeenth-Century Rome Bernini's Image of the Ideal Christian Monarch Bernini's Bumbling Barberini Bees Bernini-Bozzetti: One More, One Less. A Berninesque Sculptor in Mid-Eighteenth Century France Bernini's Death Visions of Redemption The Rome of Alexander VII. Bernini and the Reverse of the Medal The Young Bernini "Bozzetto Style": The Renaissance Sculptor's Handiwork The Regal Gift. Bernini and his Portraits of Royal Subjects Urbanitas urbana. The Pope, the Artist, and the Genius of the Place Index.

Author : Michael P. Mezzatesta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Gianlorenzo Bernini written by Michael P. Mezzatesta and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Franco Mormando
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022605523X
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bernini written by Franco Mormando and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the whirlwind life of the famed Italian sculptor who is known for his artistic and architectural contributions to the city of Rome.

Author : Domenico Bernini
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271037490
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini written by Domenico Bernini and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.