with Art Historian Donald Dwyer
Date: Tuesday, July 6
Time: 2:00 P.M.
Giannlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the most important Italian sculptor and architect of the Baroque Period. In Rome, he created buildings, statues, fountains, and influenced many followers. With an astonishing virtuoso technique, he developed an emotional art, alive with theatricality and excitement. His architecture expresses the Baroque spirit in St. Peter's dramatic forecourt, framed by colonnades that Bernini himself likened to the all-embracing arms of the Church. In his masterpiece, the Ecstasy of St. Theresa, the artist uses the restless play of light and shade to convey deep feeling. He created dazzling fountains, powerful portrait busts, and set the course of European sculpture into the mid-18th Century.