Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Koja, Stephan
2. Kryza-Gersch, Claudia
3. McInnes, Robert (Translator)
4. Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680
5. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, host institution, editor.

Description

1. 143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), genealogical table, portraits; 26 cm

Summary

1. Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pope Alexander VII (born Fabio Chigi) changed the face of baroque Rome forever. From the early years of their amicable relationship comes an intimate work of art, long considered lost but now rediscovered in the SkulpturenƯsammlung in Dresden: a shockingly realistic human skull of white marble, made by Bernini for Alexander VII in 1655. This book explores this major discovery, placing it within its broader historical context and providing new insights into the Chigi family's art collection, the acquisition of part of this collection by Augustus the Strong, the influence of Bernini on the Dresden-based sculptor Balthasar Permoser, and much more. The chapter on the plague in Rome - which Alexander VII tried to combat through such tools as compulsory quarantines, masks and the closing down of much of public life - relates that historic epidemic to our battle today against Covid-19. These historical parallels help us to understand better the ever-pressing sense of mortality during the lifetime of sculptor and Pope, which led to the creation of Bernini's remarkable Death's Head. Exhibition: Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany (28.05. - 21.11.2021).

Subject

1. Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680. > Exhibitions
2. Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680 > Criticism and interpretation > Exhibitions
3. Alexander VII, Pope, 1599-1667 > Family > Art collections > Exhibitions
4. Alexander VII, Pope, 1599-1667
5. Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680
6. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden > Exhibitions
7. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
8. Sculpture, Italian > Germany > Dresden > Exhibitions
9. Death in art > Exhibitions
10. Death in art
11. Sculpture, Italian
12. Germany > Dresden

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. Exhibition catalogs.

Contents

1. In the face of death -- "Una celebre testa di Morto, opera del Cav.r Bernini" -- Heavenly and Earthly forces in the battle against the pandemic -- Meaningful frames -- Family obligations -- Bernini and Francesco Mochi -- Great deeds in a small circle - Bernini and Permoser.

Call number

1. JQF 22-1029

Note

1. Translated from the German.
2. Catalog of an exhibition held at Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany, May 28, 2021-September 5, 2021.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Title

1. Bernini, the Pope and death : Skulpturensammlung Dresden / editors, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Stephan Koja, Claudia Kryza-Gersch ; translation, Robert Scott McInnes.

Publisher

1. Dresden : Sandstein Verlag, [2021]

Copyright date

1. © 2021

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Added author

1. Koja, Stephan, editor.
2. Kryza-Gersch, Claudia, editor.
3. McInnes, Robert (Translator), translator.
4. Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680, sculptor.
5. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, host institution, editor.

ISBN

1. 3954986167
2. 9783954986163

Research call number

1. JQF 22-1029