|
 |
All orders
shipped by
airmail!
Click here for our
Shipping Policies!
| |
 | | |
"It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can."
- Jane Hamilton,
The Book of Ruth
| | | |
|
ZIN Product Number: 10320327
| eBay (last 12 months) | | Auctions: | | 46 | | Price Range: | | $0.06 - 0.04 | | | | Craigslist (last 12 months) | | Classifieds: | | 16 | | Price Range: | | $0.04 - 0.05 | | | | Amazon Used (last 12 months) | | Auctions: | | 47 | | Price Range: | | $0.04 - 0.06 | | | | ZooScape (last 12 months) | | Auctions: | | 0 | | Price Range: | | N/A | | | | | | Google listings (non-affiliate) | | 64 | | MSN listings (non-affiliate) | | 32 | | Yahoo listings (non-affiliate) | | 56 | | |
| | 
| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 1st ed., 288 pages
Edition: 1 NO AMER
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
ISBN: 0821224654
Release Date: Jan 4, 2000
| |  | | | Annotation
A reevaluation of the multifaceted career of this prolific 17th-century Italian artist.
| |  | | |
 | | | | | Be the first to rate this book! Number of Reviews: 0
| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
Avery, an art historian formerly associated with the Victoria and Albert Museum and Christie's, draws on previously unpublished information to offer a thorough reevaluation of the career of the artist who set the terms for Roman Baroque sculpture and architecture. Includes 400 illustrations and 80 color plates
| |  | | | | Preface | 11 | | Prologue: 'Padre scultore' - Pietro Bernini and his studio | 15 | | 1 | Father and son: Pietro and Gianlorenzo in partnership | 19 | | 2 | Coming of age: the first portraits | 33 | | 3 | The great mythological groups: Aeneas, Proserpina and Daphne | 43 | | 4 | The patronage of Urban VIII Barberini | 73 | | 5 | Popes and prelates: the mature portraits | 83 | | 6 | Architect to St Peter's: the Baldacchino and Cathedra Petri | 95 | | 7 | The papal tombs: Bernini and the Dance of Death | 119 | | 8 | Mystic vision: the later religious sculpture | 141 | | 9 | 'Friend of the waters': Bernini's Roman fountains | 179 | | 10 | Bernini's buildings: the sculptor as architect | 211 | | 11 | England and France: Bernini, servant of Kings | 225 | | 12 | Genius of the Baroque: talents and techniques | 251 | | Epilogue: Bernini the man - life, death and reputation | 273 | | Notes | 279 | | Bibliography | 284 | | Photo Credits | 285 | | Index | 286 |
| |  | | | Find similiar books in these subject areas:
All Topics > Professional & Technical > Architecture > General
All Topics > Arts & Photography > Artists, A-Z > ( A-C ) > Bernini, Gian Lorenzo
All Topics > Arts & Photography > Artists, A-Z > General
All Topics > Arts & Photography > Art > Sculpture > General
All Topics > Arts & Music > Art
All Topics > Bargain Books Outlet > Arts & Music > Art
| | | | People like you also bought:
Bernini: Penguin Art and Architecture, by Howard Hibbard
Gianlorenzo Bernini, by Charles Scribner
Bernini: Sculptor of the Roman Baroque, by Rudolf Wittkower
Caravaggio, by Alfred Moir
Orazio and Artemeisia Gentileschi, by Keith Christiansen
| | | | | | Keywords
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo,, 1598-1680, Criticism and interpretation, Individual Sculptors And Their Work, Baroque Art, Architecture, Art, Individual Artist, Sculpture, Bargain, Criticism and interpretation, Bernini, Gian Lorenzo,
| |
| |
| | | |
Make $1 per sale -
Link to ZooScape.com! | |
