AHST 1304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Leochares, Apollo Belvedere
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Worked for a lot of popes, his father was a sculptor. Villa borghese, rome, and bust of cardinal scipione borghese by bernini, 1632. Sculptures in the renaissance are more closed, not moving around the space. Baroque sculptures moved around their space and invading ours. More suspenseful in the composition and more dramatic. He chose the seen when david is twisting and turning and about to throw a stone. Supposedly the cardinal held the mirror for bernini while he made the sculpture for his self portrait. He"s on par with friends, illustrious high up people. Bernini, apollo and daphne, 1622-24, borghese gallery, rome, italy. A book by ovid, lived during the time of jesus. Here, daphne is changing into a laurel tree. Apollo to the greeks and romans, he was pursuing the maiden- an abduction scene. He wishes to win her and he doesn"t.
