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'Pestilli's innovative approach offers exciting new perspectives on the artist, and makes you look afresh at the man, his work and his world.' - The Art Newspaper

'Pestilli's innovative approach offers exciting new perspectives on the artist, and makes you look afresh at the man, his work and his world.' - The Art Newspaper 'documents Bernini's legacy to other artists with a staggering array of color photographs...vast visual encyclopedia of Baroque sculpture in Rome...the real value of the book is its magical mystery tour through the mind and art of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Rome's very own Vesuvius' - New York Review of Books

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Professor Livio Pestilli is the former Director of Trinity College, Rome, where he currently teaches seminars on Michelangelo and Bernini. He is the co-editor of ""Napoli è tutto il Mondo"": Neapolitan Art and Culture from Humanism to the Enlightenment and the author of Paolo de Matteis: Neapolitan Painting and Cultural History in Baroque Europe (Ashgate, 2013) and Picturing the Lame in Italian Art from Antiquity to the Modern Era (Ashgate/Routledge, 2017).

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