Word: bernini
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Artists had their skill to display, and they did so with gusto: combining many figures for maximum drama - see the Florentine Ewer with the Triumph of Neptune (circa 1721) - or freeze-framing a body falling into ecstasy or death, as in a small Bernini clay sketch for Tomb of the Blessed Ludovica Albertoni (circa 1761-74). Baroque went way over the top and beyond, and this exhibition is the perfect way to revel...
...Francesco Cavalli’s opera “L’Ormindo.”Hargis compared Baroque music and its practice to Baroque art, stating that she often finds inspiration for her characters by looking at art from the period. She showed photographs of sculptures by Bernini, as well as paintings by Rubens and Watteau, pointing out the serpentine curves of their bodies and the grace and poise of each pose. Through excerpts of commentaries from as far back as the 17th century, Hargis discussed the importance of asymmetry in Baroque performance practice and used examples from...
...Bernini The 17th century sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini did more than give shape to stone--he gave it life, breath and a beating pulse. There's still time to catch the show of his magical portrait busts at the Getty Center in Los Angeles through...
...instant before it happened, one camera's eye caught a tableau that might serve as the late 20th century's most succinct text on the metaphysics of terrorism. There, on a mellow May afternoon at St. Peter's Square, beneath the encircling Bernini columns, the most vigorously gregarious of Popes rides slowly through a sea of tourists and pilgrims. It is a rite of sweet human communion. The Pope reaches out for babies in the crowd. He gently blesses the faces that give back a radiant daze of whatever it is that they see in the man--celebrity, charisma, holiness...
...showcasing a collection in three parts of photographs amassed and until now collecting dust like most of the university’s gathering in a Harvard depository. Hidden from tourists and casual museum-goers only interested in the celebrity of Van Gogh’s self-portrait and the Bernini sketch collection, the photography is surprisingly compelling, with emotionally raw prints that compose a time capsule of social changes and events of the 20th century. Portraits of children cringing at their first haircut, tuxedo-clad men diving head first into a fountain, an elderly couple standing by their piano...