User:Rmmiller364/Bust of Costanza Bonarelli
| Bust of Costanza Bonarelli | |
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| Artist | Gian Lorenzo Bernini |
| Year | 1636-1637 |
| Medium | marble |
| Location | Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence |
The Bust of Costanza Bonarelli is a marble portrait sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, created in the 1630s.[1] It is housed in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence, Italy.[2] The bust depicts Costanza Piccolomini Bonarelli, the wife of Matteo Bonarelli, one of Bernini's pupils and coworkers.
Subject[edit]
Costanza Bonarelli[edit]
Affair with Bernini[edit]
The subject of the work is Costanza Bonarelli, with whom he fell in love when her husband was working as Bernini's assistant in 1636. Later, Bernini discovered his brother had also been having a vigorous affair with Costanza. This created tension and led to Bernini assaulting his brother and ordering a slave to harm Costanza (leading to a deep scar on the side of her face), which led Pope Urban VIII to intervene. He advised Bernini to get married, which he did, in 1639, to Caterina Tezio. Their marriage lasted 34 years and produced 11 children. Bernini would remain professional and increasingly religious to the last, when another Pope blessed him on his deathbed.
Historiography[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^ Wittkower, Rudolf. Bernini, the Sculptor of the Roman Baroque. Fourth Edition, 1997, p. 256.
- ^ Jones, Jonathan (8 August 2003). "Costanza Bonarelli, Gianlorenzo Bernini (c1636-37)". The Guardian. Retrieved November 27, 2011.
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References[edit]
- Bacchi, Andrea, Catherine Hess, Jennifer Montagu, and Anne-Lise Desmas. 2008. Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum.
- Hibbard, Howard. Bernini. 1968. New York: Penguin Books.
- McPhee, Sarah. 2012. Bernini's Beloved: A Portrait of Costanza Piccolomini. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press.
- McPhee, Sara. 2008. "Costanza Bonarelli: Biography Versus Archive." in Bernini's biographies: Critical Essays. United States: Pennsylvania State University Press: 315-375.
- Mormando, Franco. 2013. Bernini: His Life and his Rome. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Wittkower, Rudolf. 1997. Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroque. London: Phaidon Press.
External links[edit]
Category:Busts by Gian Lorenzo Bernini Category:1630s sculptures Category:Marble sculptures in Italy Category:Busts in Italy