[PDF.18nv] Bernini and the Idealization of Death: The Blessed Lodovica Albertoni and the Altieri Chapel

Bernini and the Idealization of Death: The Blessed Lodovica Albertoni and the Altieri Chapel

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 | #4928763 in Books |  1990-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  11.00 x.50 x8.25l,.12 | File type: PDF | 152 pages

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||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Mixed blessing|By John Weretka|As the only monograph-length study of Bernini's statue of Beata Ludovica Albertoni, this book fills an important gap in Bernini art historiography. It has for this reason also attracted a certain amount of critical attention. While valuable in all kinds of ways (it reproduces sections of several primary sources dealing with the Beata, her life a| ||“Shelly Perlove has given, for the first time, a thorough, lucid, and convincing analysis of one of Bernini’s most famous works. The main thrust of the study is to reveal the levels of meaning—theological, social, and personal—that und

Tracing the history of the cult of Ludovica, the Altieri Chapel, and the statue, Shelley Perlove illuminates Bernini's contribution, both artistically and iconographically, to the chapel and proposes an interpretation of the precise nature of the experience the beata is undergoing in the sculpture. This interpretation is developed from an examination of the statue in the full context of other works of art in the chapel, medieval and Renaissance tomb sculpture, contempora...

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