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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Bernini and the antique

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We KNOW that Bernini's SCULPTURAL TASTE
was formed by the LATE antique works in the Villa Belvedere (Cortile Ottagonale):
the LAOCOONTE, the APOLLO del Belvedere, the ANTINOO del Belvedere, and the Hellenistic torsos (TORSO DEL BELVEDERE) thought to be of Ercole. THESE expressive and pwoerful works of late Antiquity were his Principal Teachers.

Bernini studied these figures with SPECIAL care.
He "made so many sketches you wouldn't believe it", his son Domenico wrote.

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