Main entry:

Bernini, Domenico, 1657-1723.

Title & Author:

The life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini / by Domenico Bernini ; a translation and critical edition, with introduction and commentary, by Franco Mormando.

Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2011.

Description:

xvi, 482 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A note on the commentary, sources, translations, abbreviations, and currency -- Introduction: The anatomy of Baroque biography : Domenico Bernini's Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini -- Domenico Bernini, The life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini -- Appendix 1: Pietro Filippo Bernini (attrib.), The vita brevis of Gian Lorenzo Bernini -- Appendix 2: Jean Donneau de Visé, "Éloge du Cavalier Bernin," Le Mercure Galant, Paris, January 1681.

Summary:

"A critical translation of the unabridged Italian text of Domenico Bernini's biography of his father, seventeenth-century sculptor, architect, painter, and playwright Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). Includes commentary on the author's data and interpretations, contrasting them with other contemporary primary sources and recent scholarship"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780271037486 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0271037482 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780271037493 (pbk.)
0271037490 (pbk.)

Subject:

Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680.
Bernini, Gianlorenzo, 1598-1680.
Sculptors Italy 17th century Biography.
Sculptors Italy Biography.
Sculpteurs Italie Biographies.
Sculpteurs Italie 17e siècle Biographies.
21.52 history of sculpture.
Sculptors
Italy

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies.

Added entries:

Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680.
Mormando, Franco, translator, writer of introduction, writer of added commentary.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 274028
Call No.: BIB 207777
Status: Available