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KIDS LOVE: The Triumph of Valor over Time by Gian Domenico Tiepolo. The painting is installed on the ceiling, and young visitors are urged to lie on their backs to look at it. They also like a coffin from Ghana, shaped like a Mercedes-Benz, for "going out in style...
...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...
...inauguration of the exhibit Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Sketches in Clay, in a permanent collection gallery of the Fogg Art Museum celebrates the quartercentenary of Bernini's birth. The works on display are studies for some of Bernini's most important projects, including the design for the sculptural decoration for the Ponte Sant' Angelo, the Tiber River bridge for pilgrims approaching St. Peter's Basilica and the architectural and sculptural setting for the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa...
...that closely resemble the statue of thecountess in the tomb erected in St. Peter'sBasilica under order of Pope Barberini. All theseform part of one of Fogg Museum's most spectacularand far-sighted purchases ever, when in 1937, theFogg acquired 27 terracotta sculptures, fourteenof which are directly associated with Gian LorenzoBernini, and a fifteenth was added...
...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