Bernini Ephemeral and Preparatory Sculpture

Taking up questions of artists' materials and technical processes currently at the vanguard of art-historical scholarship, this book studies the contiguity and interchange of workshop methods in the linked fabrication of both ephemeral and preparatory works by Bernini.

List of contents

Part I 1. Introduction: Between Sculpture and Ephemera 2. Bernini's Portraiture: Materialities of Likeness 3. Daphne's Cry: Quisquis amans sequitur Part II 4. Piazza Navona: The Baroque Scenographic Square 5. Sun and Clouds: Bernini and France, 1640 6. Bernini's 'Two Theatres': I due covielli, 1637 & 1638 Part III 7. Clay Angels: Materials of Glory 8. Baroque Folds: The Practice of Theory 9. Conclusion: Bernini 'Barocco'

About the author

Genevieve Warwick is a Professor of the History of Art at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Genevieve (University of Edinburgh Warwick, Warwick Genevieve
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032499185
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3249918-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Routledge Research in Art History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; The arts: general issues, ART / History / General, ART / Sculpture & Installation, sculpture, History of Art, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History and Archaeology, Art styles not defined by date, The arts: general topics, ART / History / European / Renaissance