Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro Bernini, “Head of Saint Jerome” (ca. 1661). Terracotta, 13 13/16 x 11 5/16 x 9 inches. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Alpheus Hyatt ...
Who can look at Bernini's Ecstasy Of St Theresa (1644- 47) with an innocent eye? On a scalding Roman summer afternoon some years ago, a trio of sandalled nuns came into the dark church of Santa Maria ...
On “Bernini: Sculpting in Clay,” at the Met. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Model for the Lion on the Four Rivers Fountain (Ca. 1649–50), Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome Photo by Zeno Colantoni, Rome; ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The sculptor, draughtsman, playwright, architect and painter Gianlorenzo Bernini was also a master manipulator. From ...