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 published shortly after his death in 1680: one by the Florentine connoisseur and writer Filippo Baldinucci (1682), and the second by Bernini's son, Domenico (1713).
This interdisciplinary collection of essays by historians of art and literature marks the first sustained examination of the two biographies, first and foremost as texts. A substantial introductory essay considers each biography's author, genesis, and foundational role in the study of Bernini. Nine essays combining art-historical research with insights from philology, literary history, and art and literary theory offer major new insights into the multifarious connections between biography, art history, and aesthetics, inviting readers to rethink Bernini's life, art, and milieu.
Contributors are Eraldo Bellini, Heiko Damm, John D. Lyons, Sarah McPhee, Tomaso Montanari, Rudolf Preimesberger, Robert Williams, and the editors.

About the author

Maarten Delbeke is Assistant Professor of architectural history and theory at the universities of Ghent and Leiden. Formerly the Scott Opler Fellow in Architectural History at Worcester College (Oxford), he is the author of several articles and a forthcoming book on Seicento art and theory.Evonne Levy is Associate Professor of the History of Art at the University of Toronto. She is also the author of Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque (2004).Steven F. Ostrow is Professor and Chair of Art History at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Art and Spirituality in Counter-Reformation Rome: The Sistine and Pauline Chapels in S. Maria Maggiore (1996) and served as contributing editor for Dosso's Fate: Painting and Court Culture in Renaissance Italy (1998).

Product details

• Authors: Maarten Delbeke
• Assisted by: Maarten Delbeke (Editor), Maarten (Ghent University) Delbeke (Editor), Delbeke Maarten (Editor), Evonne Levy (Editor), Evonne Anita Levy (Editor), Steven Ostrow (Editor), Steven F. Ostrow (Editor), Steven F. (University of Minnesota) Ostrow (Editor), Ostrow Steven F. (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2007
• EAN: 9780271029023
• ISBN: 978-0-271-02902-3
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 594 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / General, ART / Sculpture & Installation, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, sculpture, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, baroque, Individual artists, art monographs, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800