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Bernini Studies - I. The Group of Neptune and Triton

03/1952 | 588 | 94

Pages: 68+70-73+75-76

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Author:

Wittkower, Rudolf (Wittkower, Rudolf; Wittkower, R.; Wittkower, Professor; Wittkower, Rudolph)

Subjects

artists:

Bernini, Gian Lorenzo

dates:

1600-1649

museums and institutions:

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain

patrons:

Borghese, Scipione, Cardinal, 1576-1633

patrons:

Peretti di Montalto, Alessandro, Cardinal, 1571-1623

places:

Italy / Rome / England

subjects:

Italian sculpture / Art museums / Acquisitions

subjects:

Classical mythology / Neptune / Triton

subjects:

Patronage / Early works / Iconography

subjects:

Baroque / Visual sources / Composition (artistic arrangement) / Formal analysis

subjects:

Mannerism / Influence

subjects:

Apollo / Daphne / David

Illustrations

Attributed works:

10. Detail of Fig. 9, Shown in Reverse.

Attributed works:

11. Neptune and Triton, by Gianlorenzo Bernini. Marble. (Victoria and Albert Museum.)

Attributed works:

12. Side View of Neptune and Triton Illustrated in Fig. 11.

Attributed works:

13. David, by Gianlorenzo Bernini. 1619. Marble. (Borghese Gallery, Rome.)

Attributed works:

14. Pluto and Proserpine, by Gianlorenzo Bernini. Marble. (Borghese Gallery, Rome.)

Attributed works:

6. Detail from an Engraving by M. Greuter (Early Seventeenth-Century) Showing Bernini's Neptune and Triton in Garden of the Villa Negroni-Montalto, Rome.

Attributed works:

9. Æneas and Anchises, by Pietro and Gianlorenzo Bernini. Marble. (Borghese Gallery, Rome.)

Western art unattributed:

7. Engraving from Falda: Fontane di Roma (Late Seventeenth-Century) Showing Bernini's Neptune and Triton as Crowning Feature of Oval Fish Pond, in Garden of the Villa Negroni-Montalto, Rome.

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