Bernini - Softcover

Avery, Charles; Finn, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3777433454 ISBN 13: 9783777433455

Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH, 2007

Synopsis

This comprehensive study of the sculptures of Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) follows in twelve chapters his development as an artist and the area in which he excelled: portraits, the likeness of which astonished his contemporaries; the sculptures for St Peter in Rome; his extraordinary fountains; the timeless beauty of his renderings of mythological figures. German text. Die umfassende Monographie ueber die Skulpturen Gianlorenzo Berninis (1598-1680) beleuchtet in zwölf Kapiteln die Stationen seiner Entwicklung und die Gebiete, in denen er brillierte: die Porträts, deren »sprechende« Ähnlichkeit die Zeitgenossen verblueffte, die Werke fuer den Petersdom, die grandiosen Brunnen und seine Heiligen und zeitlos schönen Gestalten der antiken Mythologie. Den ausgefuehrten Werken gegenuebergestellte Vorzeichnungen, Tonskizzen und Modelle erlauben einen faszinierenden Einblick in den kuenstlerischen Schaffensprozeá.

About this title

Review:

'Superb ... a first-rate study not just of the man and his work but of the city he helped to transform'
--Contemporary Review

About the Author:

Charles Avery is a specialist in European sculpture. He was Deputy Keeper of Sculpture at the V&A for twelve years, and a Director of Christie's for ten.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 3777433454
• ISBN 13: 9783777433455
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288