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- Italy
- Popes, Vatican, Rome
- Portrait, Sculpture, Materiality
- Rome
Magnuson, Torgil, Rome in the Age of Bernini I
The idea of writing this book first came to me when I was collaborating with the late professor Erik Sjöqvist on a revision of Henrik Schück’s Rom: en vandring genom seklerna, which is well known to all Scandinavians who love Rome. The first edition of Schück’s work appeared over sixty years ago, and its author belonged to a generation which failed to appreciate the style in the visual arts that we call the Baroque. He devoted most of the first volume to Ancient Rome and the second to a comprehensive survey of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance up to the end of the sixteenth century. There was no need, he said, to go any further. Schück was an admirer of Jacob Burckhardt and the word Baroque was to him synonymous with anti-classical degenera tion. Modern students of Roman art will certainly deplore this contempt for the seventeenth century; it seems obvious to us that Bernini and Borromini -despised even by Heinrich Wölfflin belong to Rome with as much right as Raphael and Michelangelo.
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