Effigies & ecstasies : Roman baroque sculpture and design in the age of Bernini / edited by Aidan Weston-Lewis.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Weston-Lewis, Aidan

National Gallery of Scotland.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680--Exhibitions.

Bernini, Gian Lorenzo.

Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680.

Sculpture, Baroque--Italy--Rome--Exhibitions.

Sculpture, Baroque.

Sculpture, Italian--Italy--Rome--Exhibitions.

Sculpture, Italian.

Exhibitions.

Italy--Rome.

Art, Baroque--Italy--Rome--Exhibitions.

Art, Baroque.

Physical Description:

215 pages : illustrations (some color), plan ; 30 cm

Other Title:

Effigies and ecstasies

Roman baroque sculpture and design in the age of Bernini

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : National Gallery of Scotland, 1998.

Summary:

This book accompanies the National Gallery of Scotland's major Festival exhibition in 1998, a joint celebration of the fourth centenaries of the births of the two greatest sculptors of the Italian Baroque era, Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) and Alessandro Algardi (1598-1654). The Baroque is a style renowned for its elaborate combination of materials and its unification of various branches of the arts into a harmonious whole. This book will include detailed information and commentaries by leading authorities on the marble sculptures, bronzes, terracottas, medals and drawings produced by these two great artists in what was a fascinating and highly influential period in European art and design.

Contents:

Exceeding every expression of words : Bernini's Rome and the religious background / Christopher F. Black

Bernini : a mercurial life and its sources / Christopher Baker

Bernini and Britain / David Howarth

Roman decorative arts in the age of Bernini / Timothy Clifford

Catalogue.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held National Gallery of Scotland, June 25 - September 20, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-198)

ISBN:

0903598833

OCLC:

39714084