Material Bernini

Evonne Levy, Carolina Mangone, Dr. Allison Levy

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Routledge
21 April 2016

Art & design styles: Baroque; Sculpture; Individual artists, art monographs

Series: Visual Culture in Early Modernity

Bringing together established and emerging specialists in seventeenth-century Italian sculpture, Material Bernini is the first sustained examination of the conspicuous materiality of Bernini’s work in sculpture, architecture, and paint. The various essays demonstrate that material Bernini has always been tied (whether theologically, geologically, politically, or in terms of art theory) to his immaterial twin. Here immaterial Bernini and the historiography that sustains him is finally confronted by material Bernini. Central to the volume are Bernini’s works in clay, a fragmentary record of a large body of preparatory works by a sculptor who denied any direct relation between sketches of any kind and final works. Read together, the essays call into question why those works in which Bernini’s bodily relation to the material of his art is most evident, his clay studies, have been configured as a point of unmediated access to the artist’s mind, to his immaterial ideas. This insight reveals a set of values and assumptions that have profoundly shaped Bernini studies from their inception, and opens up new and compelling avenues of inquiry within a field that has long remained remarkably self-enclosed.

Edited by: Evonne Levy, Carolina Mangone
Series edited by: Dr. Allison Levy
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 793g
ISBN: 9781472459220
ISBN 10: 1472459229
Series: Visual Culture in Early Modernity
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 21 April 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Evonne Levy is Professor of Art History at the University of Toronto, Canada. Carolina Mangone is Assistant Professor at Princeton University, USA.

Reviews for Material Bernini

...a timely, stimulating, and significant contribution to scholarship on Bernini and to the study of seventeenth-century European sculpture more generally. Estelle Lingo, University of Washington, Seattle, USA