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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Bernini and the Idealization of Death: The Blessed Ludovica Albertoni and the Altieri Chapel

Bernini and the Idealization of Death: The Blessed Ludovica Albertoni and the Altieri Chapel

Perlove, Shelley

Paperback

Art Criticism & TheoryIndividual ArtistsSculpture & Installation

ISBN10: 0271014776
ISBN13: 9780271014777
Publisher: Penn St Univ Pr
Published: Oct 15 1990
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.39 Width: 8.12 Depth: 11.14
Language: English

Tracing the history of the cult of Ludovica, the Altieri Chapel, and the statue, Shelley Perlove illuminates Bernini's contribution, both artistically and iconographically, to the chapel and proposes an interpretation of the precise nature of the experience the beata is undergoing in the sculpture. This interpretation is developed from an examination of the statue in the full context of other works of art in the chapel, medieval and Renaissance tomb sculpture, contemporary accounts of Ludovica's life and cult, and devotional Catholic literature undoubtedly known to Bernini. Woven into an iconographic scheme whose layers of meaning are mutually independent, the statue and the other elements in the chapel convey a unified conception.

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