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...
Unique among early modern artists, the Baroque painter, sculptor, and architect Gianlorenzo Bernini was the subject of two monographic biographies ...
Over the course of some two centuries following the conquests and consolidations of Spanish rule in the Americas during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries--the period designated as the Baroque--new cultural forms sprang from the cross-fertilization of Spanish, Amerindian, and African traditions. This dynamism of motion, relocation, and mutation changed things not only in Spanish America, but also in Spain, creating a transatlantic Hispanic world with new understandings of personhood, place, foodstuffs, music, animals, ownership, money and objects of value, beauty, human...
Over the course of some two centuries following the conquests and consolidations of Spanish rule in the Americas during the late fifteenth and earl...
Features a crystalline fresh translation of art works - published on its one-hundredth anniversary. In this volume the introductory essays provides a historical framework and referencing debates engendered by principles in the twentieth century. It also includes translations of the prefaces and afterword."
Features a crystalline fresh translation of art works - published on its one-hundredth anniversary. In this volume the introductory essays provides a ...
