Bernini and the excesses of art
Maschietto Editore
Montecatini Terme, 2003; bound, pp. 152, b/w and col. ill., cm 18x24,5.
ISBN: 88-87700-83-4
- EAN13: 9788887700831
Subject: Architects and their Practices,Essays (Art or Architecture),Monographs (Sculpture and Decorative Arts)
Period: 1400-1800 (XV-XVIII) Renaissance
Places: No Place
Extra: Baroque & Rococo
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Weight: 0.64 kg
Gianlorenzo Bernini was the greatest artist of the seventeenth century. Sculptor, painter, architect, he created the Baroque--defining a style, and a culture, in a decisive era in European history. In this brilliantly conceived book, Robert Petersson offers an intimate encounter with Bernini's major works--from sensous marble statues that burst with life to such monumental works as the piazza of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Petersson looks closely, carefully, and freshly at the making of each masterpiece captures Bernini's world--emotional, exuberant, alive, and engaging.