Friday, 18 July 2025

{Baroque Sculpture [continued (5)]}[8th May 1991]

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‘The tombs of Bernini are magnificent spectacles in which symbolic figures, clothed in sweeping drapes, with rhetorical gesture & expressive features, share in some emotional experience, theatrically depicted. An example is the tomb of Alexander VII in St. Peter's, Rome. The pontiff, set in a great apse, kneels on a high pedestal, about which Charity. Truth, Justice and Wisdom weep disconsolately while Death, a skeleton, raises the great draperies of polychrome and gold that veil a darkened doorway.

Another work, the fountain of the Triton in the Piazza Barberini, Rome, from which all clarity of profile or of shadow, all definiteness of plane, are removed, is also characteristic of Bernini's style, widely imitated throughout Europe.

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*– [From] Encyclopaedia Britannica 27:98-100

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