The director of the art collection in Rome's jewel-like villa museum Galleria Borghese has launched a fundraising campaign to buy an important sculpture by Baroque genius Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.Rome -- The director of the art collection in Rome's jewel-like villa museum Galleria Borghese has launched a fundraising campaign to buy an important sculpture by Baroque genius Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
Bernini, one of the best sculptors of his time, also was a superlative architect who left a distinctive mark on Rome and the Vatican. He sculpted a number of astonishingly life-like portrait busts in bronze and in marble, and the bust of Urban VIII, about 40 inches high and 30 inches wide, is a splendid example of his talent.
"The vivacity of the portrait bust is what makes it so great. It's alive!" she added."And the first time I saw it, I was struck by the extraordinarily high quality of the sculpting. It was so real-looking, and the bronze looked so soft it looked like terracotta."
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