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Item Number: 85062
Title: BERNINI at Saint Peter's : The Pilgrimage (Visible Spirit: The Art of Gianlorenzo Bernini, volume III)
Author: Lavin, Irving
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781904597469
Description: London: Pindar Press, 2012. 30cm., hardcover, 374pp., 272 illus., most in color. Summary: Bernini at St. Peter’s may be a unique case in history: a single artist in change of a grandiose monument in a continuous state of creativity under constantly changing patrons and a variety of projects, for nearly six decades. This book argues that a continuous thread of thought may be discerned underlying and connecting the vicissitudes of this spectacular display. From first to last, Bernini conceived of St. Peter’s as a pilgrimage church, a kind of pilgrimage of human life, his own and of the believers who visited the basilica to worship and give testimony.
Contents: Preamble 1
St. Peter's as Summa Ecclesiarum 5
The Apse and Crossing 13 The High Altar 13 Baldachins and Ciboria 14 The Baldacchino (1624-35) 21 Excursus A: Borromini and the Baldacchino 29 Excursus B: A Neglected Prototype of the Baldacchino 34 Excursus C. The Pedestals of the Baldacchino: Footsteps on the Way to Redemption 41 The Creativity of the Baldacchino 41 The Trinity: Bees between Heaven and Earth 41 Birth 66 Purification - Healing 68 Lupercalia 76 Marriage and Progeny 81 The Chastity of Bees 83 Born From the Dunghill 88 Marginalia: Emblems Of Salvation 96 Jubilee 96 Lizards and the Sol Iustitiae 105 The Colonna Santa, the Lizard, and Apollo 117 Giotto's Navicella, the Natalis Solis Invictus, and the Sol Iustitiae 124 Beelzebub 128 Paired Tombs 131 The Tomb of Urban VIII (1627-47) 133 The Crossing Piers (1627-41) 143
The Nave: Continuity 154 "Feed My Sheep" (Pasce oves meas) (1633-46) 154 The Tomb of Matilda of Tuscany (1633-44) 157 The Nave Decoration (1645-9) 161
Ingress - Egress 164 The Piazza and Colonnades (1656-67) 164
Commemoration 182 The Cathedra Petri (1657-66) 182 The Equestrian Monument of Constantine and the Scala Regia (1662-70) 189 The Tomb of Alexander VII (1671-8) 216
Passage to the Holy City 228 The Ponte Sant'Angelo and Castel Sant'Angelo (1667-71) 228 Prehistory: 228 Saint Michael and the City 229 Siege, Triumph, and Retribution 236 The Last Judgment 243 The Bridge of Trial 246 Purgatory and All Souls 249 The Plague 249 Pre-conception 252 Bernini's Way of Salvation: 257 The Via Salvationis and the Arma Christi 261 The Angels on the Bridge 267 The Regal Couple 272 Blood and Water 276
Consummation 281 The Sacrament Altar (1673-5) 281
The Church, the City, and the Artist 298 Roma alessandrina: Urban Unity, Public Welfare, and Universal Christian Charity 298 The Blood of Christ (1669-70) 309
Bibliography 323
Index of Biblical Citations 343
Index 345.
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