Bernini's biographies : critical essays
Unique among early modern artists, the Baroque painter, sculptor, and architect Gianlorenzo Bernini was the subject of two monographic biographies: one by the Florentine connoisseur and writer Filippo Baldinucci (1682), and the second by Bernini's son, Domenico (1713). This work is an examination of the two biographies.
Print Book, English, ©2006
Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pa., ©2006
Aufsatzsammlung
xviii, 419 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780271029016, 9780271029023, 0271029013, 0271029021
69992378
At the margins of the historiography of art: the vite of Bernini between autobiography and apologia / Tomaso Montanari
Bernini's voice: from Chantelou's Journal to the vite / Steven F. Ostrow
Plotting Bernini: a triumph over time / John D. Lyons
Chapter 2 of Domenico Bernini's vita of his father: mimeses / Evonne Levy
"Always like himself": character and genius in Bernini's biographies / Robert Williams
Bernini portraits, stolen and nonstolen, in Chantelou's Journal and the Bernini vite / Rudolf Preimesberger
Gianlorenzo on the grill: the birth of the artist in his "primo parto di Divozione" / Heiko Damm
Gianlorenzo Bernini's Bell Composto: the unification of life and work in biography and historiography / Maarten Delbeke
From Mascardi to Pallavicino: the biographies of Bernini and seventeenth-century Roman culture / Eraldo Bellini
Costanza Bonarelli: biography versus archive / Sarah McPhee
Includes some text in Italian