Bernini: He Had the Touch by Ingrid D
Bernini: He Had the Touch by Ingrid D. Rowland | The New York Review of Books Pagina 1 di 11 Bernini: He Had the Touch Ingrid D. Rowland JUNE 4, 2015 ISSUE Portraits of the Soul an exhibition at the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, November 6, 2014–February 8, 2015 Bernini: Roma y la Monarquía Hispánica [Bernini: Rome and the Spanish Monarchy] Catalog of the Prado exhibition by Delfín Rodríguez Ruiz Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 189 pp., €42.00 (paper) Bernini’s Beloved: A Portrait of Costanza Piccolomini by Sarah McPhee Yale University Press, 260 pp., $50.00 Barocco a Roma: La Meraviglia delle Arti [The Baroque in Rome: The Wonders of Art] an exhibition at the Fondazione Roma Museo, Palazzo Cipolla, Rome, April 1–July 26, 2015 Catalog of the exhibition edited by Maria Grazia Bernardini and Marco Bussagli Milan: Skira, 445 pp., €42.00 (paper) Bernini at Saint Peter’s: The Pilgrimage by Irving Lavin London: Pindar, 374 pp., £195.00 Bernini: Sculpting in Clay by C.D. Dickerson III, Anthony Sigel, Ian Wardropper, and others Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Yale University Press, 416 pp., $65.00 In 1619, at the ripe age of twenty, Gian Lorenzo Bernini set himself the seemingly impossible challenge of carving the human soul in marble. Two souls, in fact: a blessed soul bound for Heaven and a wicked soul newly damned to Hell, the most insubstantial of beings portrayed in solid stone from the neck up. These two remarkable images, preserved since the seventeenth century in the Spanish embassy in Rome, recently provided the focus for a small but choice exhibition at the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
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