Gian Lorenzo Bernini
The Choreography of Sculpture
Online Lecture
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Lecturer: Kate Bolton-Porciatti
Date: Monday 9 December, 2024
Duration: 1 hour
Start Time: 7.30pm AEDT | 6.30pm QLD | 7.00pm SA | 4.30pm WA | 9.30pm NZST
Price: $25 AUD
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Overview
Gian Lorenzo Bernini produced sculptural masterpieces which utterly remade the face of Baroque Rome.
Join cultural historian Kate Bolton-Porciatti to trace how Bernini’s virtuosic brilliance emerged in his early sculptural groups, The Rape of Proserpina and Apollo and Daphne, before reaching a new maturity in his celebrated David, whose dynamism and intense emotion constrasted strongly with the poised composure of its Renaissance counterpart – Michelangelo’s David. The overwhelming sculptural-architectural work known as the Ecstasy of St Teresa is also examined, a paradigm of Baroque style with its combination of theatricality and emotion, sensuality and spirituality.
The lecture also explores aspects of Bernini’s long and colourful life, including his passionate, ill-fated love affair with Costanza Bonarelli - whose portrait bust Bernini lovingly sculpted, before arranging for her face to be violently slashed following her infidelity with his younger brother.
Your Expert lecturer
Kate Bolton-Porciatti (MPhil.) is a professor of Italian cultural history at the Istituto Lorenzo de’Medici in Florence, where she teaches BA and MA courses in the humanities. She also lectures regularly at the British Institute, Florence, and at the Chigiana Academy in Siena. Before moving to Italy permanently in 2005, she was a senior producer and broadcaster for BBC Arts & Classical Music in London and has won prestigious Jerusalem and Sony Awards for her programs. She has published extensively as an academic, a critic and a journalist. Her MPhil thesis set the music of early 15th-century Florence in its social and cultural context.
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