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• Marble made flesh: The Getty Museum is staging the first-ever exhibition devoted to Bernini's portrait busts. It reveals how triumphantly he succeeded in his aim to 'express what one goes on in the heads of heroes'

  - 2008-10-01

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Two details provide reason enough to make every effort to see this exhibition, the first comprehensive look at Gian Lorenzo Bernini's sculpted portraits. Black chalk grit remains in and around the irises and pupils of Scipione Borghese (Fig. 2), resulting from Bernini's practice of marking the surface...

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• Bernini's Biographies: Critical Essays

  - 2008-06-22

  Maarten Delbeke, Evonne Levy, and Steven F. Ostrow, eds. Bernini's Biographies: Critical Essays. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2007. xviii + 420 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $65. ISBN: 978-0-271-02901-6. Bernini studies have traditionally benefited from the fact that more contemporary biographical sources exist...

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• In the steps of Vasari: he left out Bernini and Rembrandt, but Bellori's Lives of artists are still an essential text for students of 17th-century art. David Howarth welcomes the first translation

  - 2007-11-01

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors & Architects by Giovan Pietro Bellori TRANSLATED BY ALICE SEDGWICK WOHL & HELLMUT WOHL WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TOMASO MONTANARI Cambridge University Press, 75/$130 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0521781876 As the first complete translation in any language of Bellori's Lives,...

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• Pope unveils restored Bernini door

  - 2007-10-12

  VATICAN CITY AFP — Pope Benedict XVI Friday unveiled the newly-restored bronze door of the Papal Palace, sculpted by Renaissance master Bernini and used to signal to the world that a Pope has died. The famous bronze door was started in 1400 with pieces from ancient pagan Roman temples...

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• Bernini's Apollo and Daphne From Behind.(Poem)

  - 2005-12-22

  Bernini's Apollo and Daphne From Behind Later he would think of it in his cubicle. Would recall, twisting from his whiny-wheeled chair to reach the phone's dead insistences, Apollo catching up to her: right hand...

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• Bernini and the Bell Towers: Architecture and Politics at the Vatican

  - 2004-01-01

  Bernini and the Bell Towers: Architecture and Politics at the Vatican. By Sarah McPhee. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2003. Pp. xi, 353. $60.00.)To students of seventeenth-century Rome, the title of Sarah McPhee's book will bring to mind the city's most famous artist, Gianlorenzo Bernini, and the one...

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• Bernini, Gianlorenzo

  - 2004-01-01

  Bernini, Gianlorenzo ( b Naples, 7 Dec. 1598; d Rome, 28 Nov. 1680). Italian sculptor, architect, painter, and designer, the supreme artist of the Italian Baroque . His father Pietro (1562–1629) was a ...

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• Eduardo Bernini assumes AES' management in Brazil.

  - 2003-08-27

  Brazil, Aug 27, 2003 (Gazeta Mercantil/SABI via COMTEX) Eduardo Bernini has resumed the chairmainship of Eletropaulo besides being responsible for AES' operations in Brazil. Under Bernini' management there are AES Tiete, AES Sul and the thermal electric plant Uruguaiana. Brazil represents 15% of the...

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• Bernini on display. (Market Monitor).(Gian Lorenzo Bernini exhibition in Maastricht, Netherlands)(Brief Article)

  - 2003-03-10

  TEFAF Maastricht, a leading art and antiques fair, will feature an important sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, "Modello for the Fountain of the Moor" at a fair to be held in Maastricht, Netherlands, March 14-23. The site is easily reached from Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris. Tickets...

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• Bernini, Gianlorenzo

  - 2003-01-01

  Bernini, Gianlorenzo (1598–1680). Italian sculptor, architect, painter, and designer, the supreme artist of the Italian Baroque . His father, Pietro (1562–1629), was a Mannerist sculptor of some distinction, active in Naples and then from c. 1605 in...

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