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 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781643137407)

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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

$28.95
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

$28.95
Format: Hardcover
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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
ISBN-10: 1643137409
ISBN-13: 9781643137407
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Language: English
Published: 08/03/2021
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.20d

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