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‘Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the greatest sculptor of the 17th & 18th centuries,* established the sculptural principles for those two centuries in a series of youthful works of unrivalled virtuosity, as** the “Apollo & Daphne”. Stone was now completely emancipated from stoniness by open form and by an astonishing illusion of flesh, hair, cloth, and other textures, pictorial effects that had earlier been attempted only in painting. These qualities made what his contemporaries called his “speaking portraits” seem unprecedentedly alive; portrait sculpture for two centuries was a variation of those innovations.

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*2048G~1536|GR~1664|R~1792[ce]

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

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