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How Bernini influence Baroque style?
I would like to know How he is significant to Art history.
I have found some stuff about his innovation of creating sculpture from several pieces of marbles and ability to make the stone seems to dramatic. While in Architecture, he uses Transverse ellipse in a lot of his building.
What more should I know? How he is significant to Art history?
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Within Sculpture, Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), the single most important artistic talent of the Italian baroque. Although most significant as a sculptor, he was also highly gifted as an architect; painter; draftsman; designer of stage sets, fireworks displays, funeral trappings, and playwright.
His art is the quintessence of high baroque energy and robustness. His ability to suggest textures of skin or cloth as well as to capture emotion and movement in sculpture was uncanny.
Bernini reformed a number of sculptural genres, including the portrait bust, the fountain, and the tomb. His influence was widespread throughout the 17th and 18th centuries.
The Vatican 1980. Bernini’s effigy at his 300th death anniversary. The stamp shows a canopy over the main altar in St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome
Bernini was the first sculptor to realize the dramatic potential of light in a sculptural complex. This was even more fully realized in his famous masterpiece Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1645-1652, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome), in which the sun’s rays, coming from an unseen source, illuminate the swooning saint and the smiling angel about to pierce her heart with a golden arrow. Bernini’s numerous busts also carry an analogous sense of persuasive dramatic realism, whether they are allegorical busts such as the Damned Soul and Blessed Soul (both 1619, Palazzo di Spagna, Rome), or portraits such as those of Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1632, Galleria Borghese) or Louis XIV of France (1665, Palace of Versailles).
Bernini did not begin to design churches until he was 60 years old, but his three efforts in ecclesiastical architecture are significant. His church at Castelgandolfo (1658-1661) employs a Greek cross, and his church at Ariccia (1662-1664), a circle plan. His third church, Sant’ Andrea al Quirinale (1658-1670) in Rome, is his greatest. The church was constructed on an oval plan with an ovoid porch extending beyond the facade, echoing the interior rhythms of the building. The interior, decorated with dark, multicolored marble, has a dramatic oval dome of white and gold.
Also dating from the 1660s are the Scala Regia (Royal Staircase, 1663-1666), connecting the papal apartments in the Vatican Palace to Saint Peter’s, and the magnificent Piazza San Pietro (designed 1667), framing the approach to the basilica in a dynamic ovular space formed by two vast semicircular colonnades. Bernini’s most outstanding fountain group is in the spectacular Fountain of the Four Rivers (1648-1651) in the Piazza Navona in Rome.
Italy 1998. Italy’s Artistic Heritage. 400th birth anniversary of Bernini. “Ecstasy of Santa Teresa”.
Bernini remained a vital and active artist virtually up to his death. His final work, Bust of the Savior (Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia), presents a withdrawn and restrained image of Christ indicative of what is now known to have been Bernini’s calm and resigned attitude toward death.
http://arthistory.heindorffhus.dk/frame-Style10-Baroque.htm
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9078859/Gian-Lorenzo-Bernini#120310.hook
http://www.academon.com/lib/essay/bernini-baroque.html
Rome, Bernini elephant sculpture, supporting an Egyptian obelisk HHY1011