2023-12-01

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Great Art Explained

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At the age of 8, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the child prodigy, was presented to the Pope - who prophetically announced that the child would be the Michelangelo of his age.

Bernini would not only raise the sculpted human figure to unseen levels of realism, but he would dominate the 17th century like no other, as a painter, an architect, as a playwright and of course as a sculptor, and come to be seen as the embodiment of the age of the baroque.

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Spanish Subtitles by Alma Perdomo (Gracias!)

CREDITS

Rome Footage including Apollo and Daphne by Joshua James Appleby (Thank you), whose excellent photography you can find here - https://www.instagram.com/joshuaappleby

Additional footage (Persephone) – Babi Targino

Opening Animation and Title Sequence by Brian Adsit (instagram https://instagram.com/brian_vfx?utm_m... and Behance www.behance.com/badsit88)

Sound Mix by Robert Lewis (Thank you!)

VIDEOS

Villa Borghese footage by Eric Clarke whose excellent channel you can find here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcHN3W7y0Hw&t=2s

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MUSIC

G. F. Händel - Passacaglia in g-minor

BOOKS

Bernini: His Life and His Rome (Excellent!) by Franco Mormando

Bernini and His World: Sculpture and Sculptors in Early Modern Rome by Livio Pestilli

Bernini by Charles Scribner III

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