Word: lavine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bernini reached for totality, and his ultimate goal, on which he spent 81 years, was to turn all Rome into one magnificent work of baroque art. He not only thought in grandiose terms, he also started amazingly young. Last week Irving Lavin, 39, art-history professor at New York University, announced discoveries in Rome that appear to be accomplished sculptures done when Bernini was as young as ten, an age when most children are still mastering their letters...
...Rome's American Academy, Lavin revealed five new sculptures that he attributed to Bernini: a small boy with dragon, two marble putti in the Barberini chapel in the Church of Sant' Andrea della Valle, plus two portrait busts from Confraternita della Pietá (a 17th century charity hospital demolished in 1937), long forgotten in the cellar of an adjacent church. Each is stamped with the baroque characteristic of the human presence hyperpersonified, with anatomy in strain, gestures exaggerated, details made into drama...
...Lavin found the Bernini bust of Antonio Coppola, a benefactor of the hospital, through hints in a 19th century inventory, confirmed by minutes of a 1612 meeting at which a blank check was given to Confraternita's treasurer to pay Bernini. Its twin, of Benefactor Antonio Cepparelli, was done a decade later. Drill holes in the eyes heighten their lifelike aspect, and the craggy hand of Coppola that emerges from the cloak, as if from no possible shoulder, adds to the theatrical immediacy of the long lost work. Lavin believes that the Coppola bust was done by Bernini...
...JOHN D. LAVIN...
...will probably take the MBTA two years, Lavin said, to find a new site for its repair yards and move its equipment. It is estimated that the library complex will not be completed until the end of the decade, though certain programs related to it are already operating. Many of President Kennedy's friends and associates are having their impression of the New Frontier tape-recorded as part of a project in oral history, and next year the Institute of Politics will begin bringing together scholars and men experienced in politics...