Avery, Finn, Bernini
Gianlorenzo Bernini is beyond question one of the greatest artists of all time. World-famous above all for his uniquely powerful works of sculpture, ...
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Pevsner, An Outline of European Architecture
For over sixty years Sir Nikolaus Pevsner’s study of European architecture has been regarded as a seminal work which has inspired countless students ...
Continue Reading →Boucher, Italian Baroque Sculpture
The art of sculpture in Baroque Italy reached unprecedented heights of technical perfection and emotional intensity. This book offers a view of this ...
Continue Reading →McPhee, Bernini and the Bell Towers
In 1638, the great artist-architect Gianlorenzo Bernini began one of the most ambitious architectural projects of his career: to design and construct massive ...
Continue Reading →Lavin, Drawings by Gianlorenzo Bernini
It has been an ancient and obsessive dream of mine to mount—for the first time ever — a major exhibition of drawings by ...
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Preimesberger, Paragons And Paragone
The paragone―the notion of competition and rivalry among the arts―has been a topic of debate for centuries. It erupted with great force in ...
Continue Reading →Lavin, Gianlorenzo Bernini New Aspects of His Art and Thought
This book grew out of a series of events organized by Irving Lavin in Princeton to commemorate the three-hundredth anniversary of Bernini’s death. ...
Continue Reading →Kirwin, Powers Matchless
Powers Matchless is the first book-length study on the Baldachin inside St. Peters, Rome (1624-1633). It situates the monument in the center of ...
Continue Reading →Delbeke, Bernini’s Biographies: Critical Essays
Unique among early modern artists, the Baroque painter, sculptor, and architect Gianlorenzo Bernini was the subject of two monographic biographies published shortly after ...
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Blunt, Baroque and Rococo: Architecture and Decoration
A study of a period in art and design ranges from Baroque architecture in Rome in the early 1600s through Bernini, Boromini, and ...
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