Great Art Explained: Berninis Apollo and Daphne
Great Books Explained here Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon, thanks or if you prefer a oneoff donation At the age of 8, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the child prodigy, was presented to the Pope who prophetically announced that the child would be the Michelangelo of his age. Bernini would not only raise the sculpted human figure to unseen levels of realism, but he would dominate the 17th century like no other, as a painter, an architect, as a playwright and of course as a sculptor, and come to be seen as the embodiment of the age of the baroque. IMPORTANT Subscribe and click the bell icon to be notified I would like to thank all my Patreon supporters, in particular Adriana Nemet, Alan Stewart, Alexander Velser, Alyssa Phillips, Anja Zeutschel, Brook
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