The Artist and the Eternal City: Bernini, Pope Alexander VII, and the Making of Rome by Grossman, Loyd
The Artist and the Eternal City: Bernini, Pope Alexander VII, and the Making of Rome by Grossman, Loyd

The Artist and the Eternal City: Bernini, Pope Alexander VII, and the Making of Rome

This brilliant vignette of seventeenth-century Rome, its Baroque architecture, and its relationship to the Catholic Church brings...
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Author: Loyd Grossman
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The Artist and the Eternal City: Bernini, Pope Alexander VII, and the Making of Rome by Grossman, Loyd

The Artist and the Eternal City: Bernini, Pope Alexander VII, and the Making of Rome

$76.50
The Artist and the Eternal City: Bernini, Pope Alexander VII, and the Making of Rome by Grossman, Loyd

The Artist and the Eternal City: Bernini, Pope Alexander VII, and the Making of Rome

$76.50
Author: Loyd Grossman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
This brilliant vignette of seventeenth-century Rome, its Baroque architecture, and its relationship to the Catholic Church brings to life the friendship between a genius and his patron with an ease of writing that is rare in art history.

By 1650, the spiritual and political power of the Catholic Church was shattered. Thanks to the twin blows of the Protestant Reformation and the Thirty Years War, Rome--celebrated both as the Eternal City and Caput Mundi (the head of the world)--had lost its preeminent place in Europe.

Then a new Pope, Alexander VII, fired with religious zeal, political guile, and a mania for creating new architecture, determined to restore the prestige of his church by making Rome the key destination for Europe's intellectual, political, and cultural elite. To help him do so, he enlisted the talents of Gianlorenzo Bernini, already celebrated as the most important living artist--no mean feat in the age of Rubens, Rembrandt, and Velazquez.

Author: Loyd Grossman
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 08/03/2021
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781643137407


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2021
Library Journal 06/18/2021 pg. 1

About the Author
Loyd Grossman has been deeply involved in heritage and art history throughout his career. His love of Rome was kindled by his first encounter with the enigmatic, strangely beautiful monument to this relationship between artist and the church: an elephant carrying on obelisk outside Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, just behind the Pantheon. With the elephant as his starting point, The Artist and the Eternal City evokes the intertwined strands of history, power, and art that make up the Baroque.
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