Bernini

Bernini

1. Artistic Style

   • Mannerism
   • Needing of Interpretation
     • In order to give Pagan works, a religious feel
   • Extremely influential in Baroque Period
     • More influential than Michelangelo
     • Associated with Theater
   • Studied Disegno
     • Delineation of Noble figures in poise and equilibrium
   • Unclassic Antiquity & Renaissance Classicism
   • Desire to create 3D picture

2. Relationship with Urban VIII

   • Closer than any relative
   • Personal Visit when he was sick
   • Didn't do any private commissions while Urban VIII was in power
     • When he finished the David
   • Urban wanted a Michelangelo of his own

3. Popular Artworks

   • The Goat Amalthea
     • Done when he was Eleven Years old
   • Ecstasy of Saint Theresa
     • Pagan influences of Eros
     • Religious Experience mixed with the Erotic
   • Pluto and Persephone
     • Her tears
     • Indentations on skin
   • Apollo and Daphne
     • Turned into Laurel Tree
       • Victory, Glory, and Poetry
       • Pursuing Earthly Pleasures
         • Bitter Berries
   • David
     • Portrays movement
   • Baldachin of Saint Peter
     • Needed so much Bronze, that some was stolen from the Pantheon

4. Pretty much just a good guy

   • No temperament issues