Bernini Revisited

Bernini revisited is a collection of nine essays on seldom addressed aspects of the work of Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Most of the texts deal with sculpture and the related drawings but there are some references to Bernini's paintings and observations on his architectural projects. The topics include a study of the personal mode of Bernini's drawing, the optical foreshortening phenomena and their artistic remedies, aspects of laterality and meaning of gestures, the figures' physiognomic typology and their facial expressions, self portraits and role-portraits and graphic and sculptural caricatures.