Word: bernini
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...Peter's Basilica, Rome (452 ft.), took 120 years to complete by a Who's Who of architects, including Bramante, Raphael, Bernini and Michelangelo. Begun by the warrior Pope Julius II, it is the fortress of Catholic faith...
...Sire, do not talk to me of small projects," said the Great Cham of baroque architecture, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, to Louis XIV after the Sun King lured him to Paris. Foster is too much of a democrat to echo that sentiment, but it's a fact that his imagination runs naturally on the epic scale and that, more surprisingly, large size doesn't diminish the humanistic and spiritual qualities of his buildings...
PAUL SONG, V.P. of Sotheby's coin department: "The Italian 50,000-lira note, because of all the zeros and the portrait of Italian sculptor Bernini. The first time I visited Italy, I went to the Capitoline Museum and gave the guard a 50,000 note for 5,000 and was ripped...
...symmetrical antithesis to the Angel Holding the Superscription is the Angel Holding the Crown of Thorns. Though Bernini himself sketched the clay ideas for several of the angels that now adorn the Ponte Sant' Angelo, the marble statues themselves were carved under his direction by his pupil Lazzaro Morelli. Another of the clay sketches for the Tiber River bridge project, the Angel Holding the Tabernacle is an exquisite metaphor in terracotta for the power of divine influence...
Gian Lorenzo Bernini succeeded in employingclay to manifest not only the voice and strengthof humankind, but also the voice of somethinginfinitely greater, something that subdues thevoice of humankind into accepting its humblenature, something ineffable in its divinity