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Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the presiding genius of the Italian Baroque. As a sculptor, he produced a host of exhilarating works -- the Ecstasy of St. Teresa, David, Apollo and Daphne, The Rape of Proserpina, among others -- that seem to breathe with life. As an architect, he created the interior of St. Peter's in Vatican City as we know it today -- the ornate shrines and monuments under the dome, the papal tombs, and encircling colonnades of the Piazza San Pietro itself -- as well as churches and numerous fountains throughout Rome. Drawing on much previously unpublished research, art historian Charles Avery rescues Bernini from critical neglect and offers a thoroughgoing reevaluation of this great artist's multifaceted career. Throughout, 400 illustrations, including eighty magnificent color plates, capture the richness of Bernini's work as never before -- and reveal many extraordinary details that are difficult to see even on the originals.

"For obvious reasons, sculpture is...difficult to capture on the page, but David Finn's photographs do an admirable job of translating this 17th-century genius into two dimensions without entirely sacrificing the roiling energies of his work. The sharp reproductions and Charles Avery's lucid text remind us of Bernini's range..."

Francine Prose, Wall Street Journal, 12/04/1997

"Avery's sumptuously produced book is essentially about Bernini's work, not the man....In a sense..., the text is a commentary on the photographs....For all that, it is a lucid account of Bernini's career..."

Francis Ames-Lewis, Literary Review, January 1998

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