the Rape of Proserpine. Bernini (1621-1622). White marble. We have (well, you have) taken the test on the art of the Renaissance ... I guess you will have rested a bit (not too much, since I assume that even have to deal with any test more ...) and, perhaps, looking for a locus amoenus let yourselves fall here. If so, Hold on to the chair as well, by all gods, the stone was made flesh!
Who is this magician? What is this meaty cut work? Who or what is? Come on, take a look and comment on stylistic features of this powerful work.
So, little marauders of this exciting work. Bernini showed, despite his youth, an extraordinary technical ability. Had already learned enough about the work and spirit of the master Michelangelo, as he was also capable of converting the palpitating cold marble skin, tendons, veins ... but went further than the Florentine. What Michelangelo was in restraint and moderation, in Bernini explodes in all directions like a grenade. If Michelangelo expresses the rage, anger or tension pressing our gaze to the energy content of its giants (David, Moses), Bernini displays the same energy and vibrate before us. The motion of bodies becomes at it, choreographed by feelings, affective , in huge and theatrical display of emotions, gestures, tactile qualities ... the power converted into action, capturing a fleeting but intense, that catches our senses. This book synthesizes centuries of evolution sculpture: anatomic perfection of classicism, both the old and the Renaissance, and the pathos of Hellenism, from the hand of this busy serpertina composition, clearly inspired by Mannerism.
The ideals that have informed the Renaissance are in crisis, old Europe is changing ... and, as usual, this change of time is also reflected in the art, so perhaps unintentionally, becomes the mirror of a world in ferment. Do not fail to admire this moving work: beauty and the beast, the old myth exquisite chisel reinterpreted by that other genius of Bernini sculpture that was.
The ideals that have informed the Renaissance are in crisis, old Europe is changing ... and, as usual, this change of time is also reflected in the art, so perhaps unintentionally, becomes the mirror of a world in ferment. Do not fail to admire this moving work: beauty and the beast, the old myth exquisite chisel reinterpreted by that other genius of Bernini sculpture that was.
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