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| Author | : Sarah McPhee |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780300175271 |
With lips slightly parted and eyes fixed on a point in the distance, a breathtaking marble portrait of Costanza Piccolomini appears alive. Carved by Gianlorenzo Bernini in 1636-37 for his own pleasure, the portrait of Costanza is one of his most captivating works, but until now little has been known about its subject. For centuries Costanza was identified only as Bernini's mistress, who later incited his rage by betraying him for his brother. Author Sarah McPhee corrects and expands this story in her remarkable biography of a sculpture and its subject. Bernini's Beloved sets the bust and Costanza's own life--her childhood and noble name, her marriage, affair, fall from grace, and recovery--against the backdrop of Baroque Rome. Beautifully illustrated and written, this fascinating story expands our understanding of the woman whose intelligence and passion served as inspiration for Bernini's celebrated sculpture, and who courageously forged a life for herself in the decades following its creation.
| Author | : Franco Mormando |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 452 |
| Release | : 2013-04-02 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 022605523X |
Profiles the whirlwind life of the famed Italian sculptor who is known for his artistic and architectural contributions to the city of Rome.
| Author | : Rosemary Barrow |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2018-10-11 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1108583865 |
Gender and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture offers incisive analysis of selected works of ancient art through a critical use of cutting-edge theory from gender studies, body studies, art history and other related fields. The book raises important questions about ancient sculpture and the contrasting responses that the individual works can be shown to evoke. Rosemary Barrow gives close attention to both original context and modern experience, while directly addressing the question of continuity in gender and body issues from antiquity to the early modern period through a discussion of the sculpture of Bernini. Accessible and fully illustrated, her book features new translations of ancient sources and a glossary of Greek and Latin terms. It will be an invaluable resource and focus for debate for a wide range of readers interested in ancient art, gender and sexuality in antiquity, and art history and gender and body studies more broadly.
| Author | : Domenico Bernini |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 500 |
| Release | : 2012-01-31 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0271037490 |
"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.
| Author | : Dan Burstein |
| Publisher | : Vanguard |
| Total Pages | : 535 |
| Release | : 2009-03-31 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0786745517 |
Set against the backdrop of beautiful Baroque Rome, Inside Angels & Demons: The Unauthorized Guide to the International Bestseller takes you inside the Vatican to see how the process of conclave and papal selection really works. Readers explore the world of Bernini, master artist of the Baroque era, and the secret meanings behind his symbolism...what really happened in the trial of Galileo...the impact of the Illuminati, the Freemasons, and other secret societies on European and American history...the real state of the art anti-matter technology...the centuries-old debate between science and religion. Millions of readers want to separate fact from fiction. This book teases apart the real and the imagined within the historical labyrinth of conspiracies, cover-ups, messages encoded in famous artworks, secrets societies, and mystical knowledge. Inside Angels & Demons: The Unauthorized Guide to the International Bestseller is must reading for anyone fascinated with Dan Brown’s historical mysteries.
| Author | : Jacob Rubin |
| Publisher | : Penguin Books |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2016-03-15 |
| Genre | : Humorous stories |
| ISBN | : 014310795X |
All his life, Giovanni Bernini has possessed an uncanny gift: he can imitate anyone he meets. Honed by his mother at a young age, the talent catapults him from small-town obscurity to stardom. As his fame grows, Giovanni encounters a beautiful and enigmatic stage singer, Lucy Starlight - the only person whose thread he cannot find - and becomes increasingly trapped inside his many poses. Ultimately, he must assume the one identity he has never been able to master: his own.
| Author | : Patricia Emison |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 468 |
| Release | : 2004-05-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9047404890 |
An investigation of why Michelangelo first, and then many other, Renaissance artists and works were called "divine" by contemporaries, this study ranges from fourteenth-century praise of Dante to a variety of sixteenth-century habits of courtly compliment.
| Author | : David Macfarlane |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2013-09-24 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1443415987 |
A sensuous, heartbreaking novel about art, beauty and the choices we make that define us for life, from the author of the Giller Prize finalist Summer Gone. A young man travels to Paris in 1968, where a series of unlikely events take him to a tiny village in Italy—and the one great love of his life. A marble merchant meets a couple on their honeymoon, introducing them to the sensual beauty of Carrara. An Italian woman arrives in Canada to find the father she never knew. A terrible accident in a marble quarry changes the course of a young boy’s life and, ultimately, sets in motion each of these stories, which Macfarlane masterfully shapes into a magnificent whole. Oliver Hughson falls in love with wild, bohemian Anna over the course of one glorious summer in Italy. Bound by a sense of responsibility to his adoptive parents back home in Canada, however, he leaves her, an act he will regret for the rest of his life. Narrated by the daughter he never knew he had, The Figures of Beauty is a love story of mythic proportions. Through luck, fate and great good fortune, Oliver found the one place and the one woman he should never have left. This is the story of him trying to find his way back.
| Author | : Maarten Delbeke |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0271029013 |
Unique among early modern artists, the Baroque painter, sculptor, and architect Gianlorenzo Bernini was the subject of two monographic biographies published shortly after his death in 1680: one by the Florentine connoisseur and writer Filippo Baldinucci (1682), and the second by Bernini's son, Domenico (1713). This interdisciplinary collection of essays by historians of art and literature marks the first sustained examination of the two biographies, first and foremost as texts. A substantial introductory essay considers each biography's author, genesis, and foundational role in the study of Bernini. Nine essays combining art-historical research with insights from philology, literary history, and art and literary theory offer major new insights into the multifarious connections between biography, art history, and aesthetics, inviting readers to rethink Bernini's life, art, and milieu. Contributors are Eraldo Bellini, Heiko Damm, John D. Lyons, Sarah McPhee, Tomaso Montanari, Rudolf Preimesberger, Robert Williams, and the editors.Maarten Delbeke is Assistant Professor of architectural history and theory at the universities of Ghent and Leiden. Formerly the Scott Opler Fellow in Architectural History at Worcester College (Oxford), he is the author of several articles and a forthcoming book on Seicento art and theory.Evonne Levy is Associate Professor of the History of Art at the University of Toronto. She is also the author of Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque (2004).
| Author | : Sarah McPhee |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 2002-01-01 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9780300089820 |
In 1638, Gianlorenzo Bernini began the ambitious architectural project of designing and constructing massive twin bell towers atop St. Peter's basilica. But the project failed spectacularly. This volume tells the story of the bell towers, presenting both visual and documentary evidence.
