Pageant of the Masters Brings Art to Life Jul 6, 2006
Works by Vincent Van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci, Gianlorenzo Bernini and others will be presented. The Festival of Arts, which opened Sunday, also features the work of more than 140 artists along with live music, workshops, seminars, special events, tours and other attractions. (Los Angeles Times)
2006 Pageant Preview: 'A Passion for Art' is One from The Heart Dec 2, 2005
Among the artists that Challis Davy felt had to be included were the Italian master of Baroque sculpture, Gianlorenzo Bernini, whose extraordinary "Ecstasy of St. Teresa" will be featured. Calling him, in her opinion, the greatest sculptor of all time, Challis Davy explained, "You have to have a passion to make stone come to life the way he did.". (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Man of steel Jun 22, 2005
"Do not speak to me about small projects," said Gianlorenzo Bernini to Louis XIV, when the sun king brought him in state to Paris to redesign the Louvre. This could have been Serra's motto at Bilbao. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
TUE Oct 12, 04, 6:46 PM Oct 13, 2004
On view at SAM Oct. 16, 2004 - Jan. 2, 2005, the exhibition features more than 100 works of art and science, many of which have never before traveled to the U.S. Included are sculptures, tapestries, scientific instruments, maps, armor, books and paintings by artists such as Hieronymus Bosch, Titian, El Greco, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Diego Velazquez and Francisco de Goya. (Photo: ) Sixteen Spanish and American museums, including the Patrimonio Nacional and Museo del Prado, and several private... (PR Newswire)
Ruining RomeStreets and statues in Rome come under attack from vandals Aug 6, 2004
This was built to the design of the famous Roman 17th Century sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini. Last month, a passer-by refreshing himself from one of the water jets flowing into the fountain basin noticed that the head of one of three giant marble bees perched there had been lopped off, and informed the police. (BBC News -- Europe)
Just watch and be dazzled May 12, 2004
When legendary sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini arrives in Paris, our courtier becomes his guide and translator. As Bernini's ally he is at risk while the temperamental Italian sculpts a bust of the king, fighting every stone-chip of the way with the all-powerful Louis. (Toronto Star -- Arts)
The First Art Newspaper on the Net. May 3, 2004
Drawn from the Gettys permanent collections, the exhibition features artists from the Italian, French, Netherlandish, and Flemish schools, including Gianlorenzo Bernini, Pietro da Cortona, Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain, and Peter Paul Rubens. While they developed distinctive national styles, Baroque artists also explored common trends often marked by extravagant forms, dynamic opposition, and powerful tensions. (Art Daily)
The shapes of things to come Jan 6, 2004
The Florentine Renaissance sculptor Giambologna restricted his own work to the creation of wax and clay models, to be scaled up and faithfully copied in marble and bronze by his workshop; at the height of his career, the greatest sculptor of Baroque Rome, Gianlorenzo Bernini, employed a veritable army of assistants to help him complete the multitude of monuments, fountains, portrait busts and other works demanded by his munificent but impatient patrons. Another, consisting of terracottas from... (Telegraph.co.uk, UK)
Reflection of the city around it Oct 20, 2003
If this room has a precedent, it lies in the 17th century Baroque architecture of Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini. As in Borromini's S. Ivo della Sapienza in Rome, Gehry's intricate composition of concave and convex forms imbues the space with an exquisite visual complexity (Calendar Live, CA)
