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Title: Visible Spirit: The Art of GIANLORENZO BERNINI, Vol. 2 Author: Lavin, Irving Price: Euro 400.00 ISBN: 9781904597452 Record created on 02/02/2009 Description: London: Pindar Press, 2009. 24cm., hardcover, pp. 820pp. illus. Contents: Bernini and Antiquity - The Baroque Paradox, A Poetical View ; Bernini's Portraits of No-Body ; Bernini's Bust of Francesco I d'Este. "Impresa quasi impossibile" ; Bernini's Bust of the Medusa: An Awful Pun ; Bernini's Bust of the Savior and the Problem of the Homeless in Seventeenth-Century Rome ; Bernini's Image of the Ideal Christian Monarch ; Bernini's Bumbling Barberini Bees ; Bernini-Bozzetti: One More, One Less. A Berninesque Sculptor in Mid-Eighteenth Century France ; Bernini's Death Visions of Redemption ; The Rome of Alexander VII ; Bernini and the Reverse of the Medal ; The Young Bernini ; "Bozzetto Style": The Renaissance Sculptor's Handiwork The Regal Gift. Bernini and his Portraits of Royal Subjects ; Urbanitas urbana. The Pope, the Artist, and the Genius of the Place. Size: 240 x 170 mm.