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* Read # Bernini's Beloved: A Portrait of Costanza Piccolomini by Sarah McPhee ç eBook or Kindle ePUB. Bernini's Beloved: A Portrait of Costanza Piccolomini "Brilliant!" according to A reader. The ability to bring a dead person back to life is usually the province of miracle-working saints, but it’s also within the power of an extraordinary biographer, and that’s certainly true of the author of this book. The “beloved” in the title is Costanza Piccolomini Bonarelli, mistress of the most celebrated Italian artist of the 1600s, Gianlorenzo Berni]
| Title | : | Bernini's Beloved: A Portrait of Costanza Piccolomini |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.78 (860 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300175272 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-18 |
| Language | : | English |
"Brilliant!" according to A reader. The ability to bring a dead person back to life is usually the province of miracle-working saints, but it’s also within the power of an extraordinary biographer, and that’s certainly true of the author of this book. The “beloved” in the title is Costanza Piccolomini Bonarelli, mistress of the most celebrated Italian artist of the 1600s, Gianlorenzo Berni
With lips slightly parted and eyes fixed on a point in the distance, a breathtaking marble portrait of Costanza Piccolomini appears alive. Bernini's Beloved sets the bust and Costanza's own life—her childhood and noble name, her marriage, affair, fall from grace, and recovery—against the backdrop of Baroque Rome. Author Sarah McPhee corrects and expands this story in her remarkable biography of a sculpture and its subject. Beautifully illustrated and written, this fascinating story expands our understanding of the woman whose intelligence and passion served as inspiration for Bernini's celebrated sculpture, and who courageously forged a life for herself in the decades following its creation.. Carved by Gianlorenzo Bernini in 1636–37 for his own pleasure, the portrait of Costanza is one of his most captivating works, but until now little has been known about its subject.For centuries Costanza was identified only as Bernini's mistress, who later incited his rage by betra
"Splendidly illustrated and erudite. A highly impressive work of scholarship and a tour de force of interest to art historians, scholars of the baroque with a particular interest in women’s history, that is also accessible to general readers."--Publisher's Weekly (starred review) . McPhee beautifully interweaves personal history, art history, and the cultural history of baroque Rome to spotlight Piccolomini’s biography and to demonstrate why the power of her image and her story is worth investigating
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