Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture |
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| Author:
| Bacchi, Andrea
Hess, Catherine |
| Contribution by:
| Bachi, Andrea |
| ISBN: | 978-0-89236-931-7 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2008 |
| Publisher: | Getty Publications
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| Imprint: | J. Paul Getty Museum |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $130.95 |
Book Description:
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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. It examines 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...
More DescriptionBernini 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. It examines 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.