The Artist and the Eternal City: Bernini, Pope Alexander VII, and the Making of Rome

by Loyd Grossman

Book Overview

This brilliant vignette of seventeenth-century Rome, its Baroque architecture, and its relationship to the Catholic Church brings to life the friendship between a genius and his patron with an ease of writing that is rare in art history.

By 1650, the spiritual and political power of the Catholic Church was shattered. Thanks to the twin blows of the Protestant Reformation and the Thirty Years War, Rome--celebrated both as the Eternal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643137409
• ISBN13: 9781643137407
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.1"