CARAVAGGIO AND BERNINI

This book examines in depth the painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) and the sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-16 80). Other painters and sculptors gathered around these two geniuses in Rome in the first decades of the 17th century. Together they formulated a new artistic language which later came to be known as Roman Baroque. In a very short period of time, Rome became an in ternational cultural hotspot, the breeding ground of new ideas and initiatives. Artists from all over Europe came to the Eternal City to study...[Read more]