书名：The Artist and the Eternal City: Bernini, Pope Alexander VII, and the Making of Rome / 艺术家与永恒之城：贝尼尼、教皇亚历山大七世与罗马的塑造
定价：210.0
ISBN：9781643137407
作者：Loyd Grossman
版次：1
出版时间：2021-08

内容提要：

书名：The Artist and the Eternal City: Bernini, Pope Alexander VII, and The Making of Rome / 艺术家与永恒之城：贝尼尼、教皇亚历山大七世与罗马的塑造
作者：Loyd Grossman
出版社：Pegasus Books，2021年
装帧：精装，315页 
语种：英文
尺寸：约 24 cm 
ISBN：978-1-6431-3740-7

简介

本书生动描绘了十七世纪的罗马、其巴洛克建筑及其与天主教会的关系，以罕见的轻松笔触展现了一位天才艺术家与其赞助人之间的友谊。

1650年，天主教会的灵性与政治权力已支离破碎。历经新教改革和三十年战争的双重打击，罗马——这座被誉为“永恒之城”和“世界之都”的城市——已失去其卓越地位。此时，新教皇亚历山大七世满怀宗教热忱、政治谋略及建造新建筑的狂热，决心重振教会威望，其策略是让罗马成为欧洲知识、政治和文化精英的必往之地。为此，他选中了当时最伟大的在世艺术家吉安·洛伦佐·贝尼尼来协助实现这一宏图。

By 1650, the spiritual and political power of the Catholic Church was shattered. Thanks to the twin blows of the Protestant Reformation and the Thirty Years War, Rome—celebrated both as the Eternal City and Caput Mundi (the head of the world)—had lost its preeminent place in Europe. Then a new Pope, Alexander VII, fired with religious zeal, political guile, and a mania for creating new architecture, determined to restore the prestige of his church by making Rome the key destination for Europe's intellectual, political, and cultural elite. To help him do so, he enlisted the talents of Gianlorenzo Bernini, already celebrated as the most important living artist—no mean feat in the age of Rubens, Rembrandt, and Velazquez.