Bernini's Michelangelo
Carolina Mangone
Bok · Engelsk · 2020
| Omfang | 277 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | "Acclaimed the "Michelangelo of his age," the celebrated Baroque artist Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) consciously imitated his famed Renaissance predecessor's art and aspired to match his achievements in sculpture and architecture. Bernini repeatedly emulated Michelangelo's work and its underlying principles, reconciling them to the changed aesthetic, sacred, and theoretical priorities of his own era. Bernini's Michelangelo is the first book to examine this fundamental artistic relationship. Through close visual analysis of religious sculptures, tomb monuments, the design of New Saint Peter's Basilica, and architectural ornament, Carolina Mangone deftly redefines the originality and modernity of Bernini's imitation of Michelangelo. Using a range of previously unexamined writings-poems, court notices, treatises, and popular manuals-about Michelangelo's art and practice, she also repositions the Renaissance master's place in the central artistic concerns of the Baroque from peripheral to pivotal. Without Michelangelo, there was no Bernini"--
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| ISBN | 9780300247732
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