The first volume of Rome in the Age of Bernini (1585-1644) was published in 1982. In the present volume I continue the story ...
Continue Reading →The idea of writing this book first came to me when I was collaborating with the late professor Erik Sjöqvist on a revision ...
Continue Reading →The Roman author Pliny tells the story—well known in the Renaissance—of the famed Grecian painter Apelles hiding behind one of his pictures to ...
Continue Reading →Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), sculptor, architect, painter, and playwright, was the most influential artist of seventeenth-century Rome and, indeed, one of the leading ...
Continue Reading →Sumptuous plasterwork ornament is a celebrated and distinctive feature of Ireland’s 18th-century domestic architecture. Migrant craftsmen brought the modeling skills and decorative forms ...
Continue Reading →Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as “art” but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of ...
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