Bernini Marble Sculptures

The story goes that she was taken by pluto who was the ruler of the underworld.

Bernini marble sculptures.

This work displays bernini s technical brilliance and innovation in his manipulation of marble as the folds of teresa s robes rather than the controlled folds of classical sculptures are shown whirling around teresa contributing to the sense of movement. Mostly i m keeping an eye out for bernini sculptures particularly apollo and daphne a sculpture so delicate and alive it s hard to believe it s carved from marble not from snow. The rape of proserpina is another bernini sculpture made from marble sculpted between 1621 and 1622. The billowing robes and the golden light are typical of the artist s fusion of marble and gilt.

Another piece commissioned by cardinal scipione borghese it still resides in the galleria borghese. A life size marble sculpture david is a portrait of the biblical david as he prepares to throw a stone that would defeat goliath. Every time i m in rome i make a pilgrimage to the borghese to see it. His progressive focus on human emotion and sensuality became important to later artists all the way up to the modernist period.

Bernini s insistence that beauty should be found in observing humans and nature instead of studying classical statues or renaissance paintings was a move away from the traditional ways of creating work. The following is a list of works of sculpture architecture and painting by the italian baroque artist gian lorenzo bernini the numbering follows rudolph wittkower s catalogue first published in 1955 in gian lorenzo bernini. Apollo and daphne is a life sized baroque marble sculpture by italian artist gian lorenzo bernini executed between 1622 and 1625 housed in the galleria borghese in rome the work depicts the climax of the story of apollo and daphne phoebus and daphne in ovid s metamorphoses. But on this trip a visit to see apollo and daphne isn t enough.

It shows the abduction of proserpina an ancient roman goddess. A perfect example of the way bernini combined sculpture and architecture it depicts the rapture of st teresa of avila at the moment when an angel pierces her heart with the golden arrow of divine love. Young woman with a unicorn raphael. The sculptor of the roman baroque.

Bernini s sensual awareness of the surface textures of skin and hair and his novel sense of shading broke with the tradition of michelangelo and marked the emergence of a new period in.