In Praise of Power
Alexander Nagel: Bernini the Ruthless, 3 January 2013
Bernini: His Life and His Rome
by Franco Mormando.
Chicago, 429 pp., £22.50, December 2011,978 0 226 53852 5 Show More
by Franco Mormando.
Chicago, 429 pp., £22.50, December 2011,
“... Self Portrait’ (1635) Franco Mormando has a lot to tell us about Gian Lorenzo Bernini and the Rome of his day, but one lasting lesson is that just about everyone who knew him hated him. The harshest criticism came from his mother, who in 1638 wrote an exasperated letter to Pope Urban VIII’s nephew, Cardinal Francesco Barberini ... ”
