Bernini

Gianlorenzo Bernini was the greatest sculptor and one of the greatest architects of the seventeenth century. Today his work is everywhere in evidence in Rome - in the design of the colonnaded piazza before St Peter's, in a sequence of magnificent Baroque fountains, in lavish and fantastic decorative enterprises within St Peter's itself, and in a number of portrait busts and mythological and religious sculptures of unrivalled technical perfection and dramatic power. Bernini served Louis XIV as well as a succession of popes. His work expresses the spirit of his age perhaps more than that of any other artist in history. In this new study Howard Hibbard reveals the gradual evolution of a revolutionary artistic vision which embraced painting, sculpture, and architecture and ultimately merged them into one dramatic whole.

Published 1965, Pelican Book, A701.

Binding of book is intact. Book is bowed. Some wear and tear on covers and spine. Front cover is slight torn at side. Tanning of edges of book, heaviest on top edge. Joints of spine fragile. Pages clean and in very good condition.