Bernini sculpture

Galleria Borghese

Page of David by BERNINI, Gian Lorenzo in the Web Gallery of Art, a searchable image collection and database of European painting, sculpture and architecture (200-1900)

Despite the frightening (to put it charitably) paintings of the Renaissance Era, that time period was actually a time of great anatomical achievement in another area of art: sculpture. Every…

This equestrian statue of Constantine the Great has been the subject of criticism for centuries.

In the spring of 1959, a twenty-one-year-old Australian named Robert Hughes made his first visit to Rome. The young student of architecture, as it turned out, had a gift for writing as well as a ravenous, penetrating eye. Though he gained in sophistication, he never lost his initial brashness, and that is why, in the end, he has such an original, persuasive take on the Eternal City. The reasons for Rome's staying power, Hughes argues, have to do with the city's eternal embrace of crassness…

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Sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

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