ROME (AP) — A new exhibition in Rome is celebrating one of the most important patron-artist relationships in European history, one that propelled a young prodigy named Gian LorenzoBernini into a towering figure of Baroque art and architecture ... .
“Bernini y los Barberini”, que abre el jueves, explora la compleja relación entre Bernini y el papa UrbanoVIII, quien gobernó de 1623 a 1644 ...Pero la muestra lo celebra por haber identificado un genio en Bernini.
Christie's ... An emotionally vivid portrait of a man with a moustache by Gian LorenzoBernini sold for $139,700 against its $120,000 high estimate, as part of a group of works on paper the artist is known to have given to relatives and friends ... .