Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the universal geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. Bernini's artistic vision remains palpably present today through the countless statues, fountains, buildings and other works of his design that transformed Rome into the Baroque theater that continues to enthrall in our own time.
Lecturer Franco Mormando, author of the first English-language biography of the artist - Bernini: His Life and His Rome - will offer a guided tour of Bernini's long, dramatic life (private and public) and his equally fascinating Rome, with special emphasis on his many (and troubled) interactions with the French court.
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