Cloth: 978-0-226-53852-5 | Paper: 978-0-226-05523-7 | Electronic: 978-0-226-53851-8
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226538518.001.0001
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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"By adopting the manner of a lecturer—teasingly mentioning things to come, employing the first-person plural as a teacher, roping students into his intellectual questing, throwing in some slang now and then, and without neglecting scholarship (this is a history of papal Rome as much as a biography)—Mormando gives us a succulent reading experience. Quanto e dolce."
— Booklist, starred review"Mormando provides enough salacious details of the scandal-ridden life of baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini to keep readers turning pages in this engaging, well-researched biography. . . . Mormando’s extensive research and documentation not only will satisfy scholars and students of art history, especially baroque aficionados, but this biography will also appeal to general readers"
— Library Journal"There are a few artists to whom the label 'faultless' applies, and the top of that list is Bernini, architect, showman and sculptor. Franco Mormando's book shows him in full as a man for the first time, and he is as pleasing, as sweet, as interestingly ambiguous as his amazing oeuvre. This is a wonderful book to have at last."
— John Crowley, author of Aegypt and Little, Big“Franco Mormando’s fascinating book is a welcome addition to the Bernini literature. It is both a biography of the artist and a portrait of Roman Baroque culture. Though written for a general audience, it reveals an impressive command of the specialist scholarship—in art history, literature, and history. Mormando wears his learning lightly, writing with animation, carefully pacing his anecdotes, and making the whole as entertaining as it is informative.”
— Pamela Jones, University of Massachusetts, Boston"Such a publishing landmark by a lauded historian of the period is an event."
— The Tablet (UK)TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface: The First English-Language Biography of Bernini
Acknowledgments
Website Information
Money, Wages, and Cost of Living in Baroque Rome
Abbreviations
1. The Neapolitan Meteor
2. Impresario Supreme
3. Bernini’s Agony and Ecstasy
4. Bernini and Alexander
5. A Roman Artist in King Louis’s Court
6. “My Star Will Lose Its Ascendancy”
Notes
Works Cited
Index