The Life of Bernini
Hardbound
1966 · University Park, Pennsylvania
by Baldinucci, Filippo
University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1966. Hardbound. Good, clean and tight but for ex-lib. marks;. Grey boards with tan illustrated dj and mylar cover; 117 pp. with 9 bw figures;. Baldinucci is best known as the author of the first history of figurative art that was European, rather than national or regional. Queen Christina of Sweden had commissioned the Life of Bernini as a separate volume as a tribute to Bernini's artistic genius, although Baldinucci had intended it as part of his original history. This edition is the entire text, published in English, for the first time. (Inventory #: 117194)