From Library Journal
In the later years of his stellar career, Bernini created three masterpieces that exemplify the spirit of the Baroque style. The Fonseca and Albertoni chapels and the altar of Sant' Andrea al Quirinale vividly manifest the combinatory impulses that create a visceral, spiritual, and aesthetic unity out of the diverse components of architecture, painting, and sculpture. Careri's subtle study seeks not only to elucidate the nature of these dynamic ensembles but also to suggest means of investigating them. Of particular value is his attempt to evoke how the monuments might have been experienced and understood. In addition to his summary of essential art historical data about these works, the author, who is cultural attache for the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris, provides a thoughtful methodological critique of earlier studies. But for a sometimes strained theoretical garniture, Careri's attempt at interpretative comprehensiveness should command the respectful attention of the scholarly community.
Robert Cahn, Fashion Inst. of Technology, New York
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Robert Cahn, Fashion Inst. of Technology, New York
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.
Midwest Book Review
Bernini was the first to attempt to unite architecture with sculpture and painting in a "beautiful whole". His design of Baroque chapels (a dark world sealed below by a balustrade, covered by a luminous celestial dome, and populated by bodies of paint, marble, stucco, and flesh) bare this out. Bernini: Flights of Love, the Art of Devotion explores three of these Baroque chapels to show how Bernini achieved his remarkable effects. Giovanni Careri examines the ways in which the artist integrated the disparate forms of architecture, painting and sculpture into a coherent space for devotion, and then shows how this accomplishment was understood by religious practitioners.
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