Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), sculptor, architect, painter,
and playwright, was the most influential artist of
seventeenth-century Rome and, indeed, one of the leading creative
forces in European art for most of that century. He is universally
recognized as one of the creators of the vastly popular Roman
Baroque style, which was quickly disseminated throughout all of
Europe. His influence lasted well beyond his death, and the
popularity of his numerous works--fountains, statues, churches, and
public squares--is today as great as it was during his own
lifetime, if not more so. Domenico Bernini (1657-1723) was the
artist's youngest child. Domenico's full-length biography of his
famous father represents one of the most important and most
intimate primary sources for the artist's life and work.
In this edition, Franco Mormando presents the first critical
translation in any language of the complete Italian text, together
with annotated translations of two other significant but brief
biographical sketches. Mormando provides a lengthy Introduction
that closely examines the author and his career, his editorial
agenda and critical reception, Baroque biography as a literary
genre, the other extant primary sources, and the artistic
vocabulary of early modern Europe, among other relevant topics.
Extensive commentary accompanies and illuminates the text from a
multiplicity of historical, linguistic, and cultural perspectives.
This edition is, in effect, a one-volume encyclopedia on the
artist's life and work. As such, it stands alone within the immense
bibliography of Bernini scholarship.
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