Lorenzo bernini

Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Self-Portrait. C.1623. Detail. @galleriaborgheseufficiale - " There are two devices which can help the sculptor to…

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The first Baroque artist Bernini who created this sculpture David, he started this sculputure on his 18th birthday in . It only took Bernini 7 months to create this materpiece for Cardinal Borghese 1623-1623. This sculputre displays the biblica; David where he is about to throw the stone that will bring down Goliath.

Despite the frightening (to put it charitably) paintings of the Renaissance Era, that time period was actually a time of great anatomical achievement in another area of art: sculpture. Every…

Sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

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In the spring of 1959, a twenty-one-year-old Australian named Robert Hughes made his first visit to Rome. The young student of architecture, as it turned out, had a gift for writing as well as a ravenous, penetrating eye. Though he gained in sophistication, he never lost his initial brashness, and that is why, in the end, he has such an original, persuasive take on the Eternal City. The reasons for Rome's staying power, Hughes argues, have to do with the city's eternal embrace of crassness…

Portrait of a young man (c. 1650) Artist/s name SPAIN Medium oil on canvas Place/s of Execution Spain Accession Number E3-1976 Credit Line National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne