“Gian Lorenzo Bernini 'the Florentine’?”
Although Ottavio Leoni's portrait of the young Bernini identifies him as a Neapolitan sculptor (“Neapolitan[us] Sculptor”), the artist spent much of his adult life claiming he was a Florentine. The talk will address the reasons why the Genius of Baroque Rome, born in Naples of a Neapolitan mother and a Florentine father, chose, as he became more famous, to distance himself from his southern roots. A first look into the forthcoming book, Bernini and His World (London: Lund Humphries, March 2022).
Speaker: Livio Pestilli, Barbieri Center, Trinity College, Rome
Introduced by: Ingrid Rowland, University of Notre Dame