Swooning
Nicholas Penny, 2 April 1981
Bernini and the Unity of the Visual Arts
by Irving Lavin.
Oxford, 255 pp., £45, October 1980,0 19 520184 1 Show More
by Irving Lavin.
Oxford, 255 pp., £45, October 1980,
“... Howard Hibbard (author of the admirable Penguin introduction to Bernini’s work in all media) and Irving Lavin, who has so exhaustively investigated Bernini’s work at the crossing of St Peter’s, and who now, in these two handsome volumes, turns his attention to the group of ‘The Ecstasy’ – or, as he is careful to call it, ‘The ... ”