Bernini ; sculptor and architect
/ Daniele Pinton
- Rome : ATS Italia Editrice , 2009
- 77 p. : illus. ; 26 cm.
Great architect, sculptor, designer, painter and playwright, Gian Lorenzo Bernini is one of the leading figures of the seventeenth century Italian. The choice made for this monograph is to represent him, according to a criterion of geographical, through the works featured in major museums the world. Cards, enriched with a rich iconographic, provide readers with the 'historical and critical analysis of the most representative works of the' Roman artist. His works are read both the technical virtuosity of late Mannerism that the study of Hellenistic naturalism, and the suggestions of the great masters of the sixteenth century that the classicism of the Carracci painting.