Bernini's

Bernini's piece largely piqued my interest as a feminist and as a sculptor working with clay's relationship to the body.

Joan Sherman: Young Artists Look at Old Masters Joan Sherman 2011

Bernini's piece largely piqued my interest as a feminist and as a sculptor working with clay's relationship to the body.

Joan Sherman: Young Artists Look at Old Masters Joan Sherman 2011

Bernini's "Ecstasy of St. Theresa" is charged, for me, with questions pertaining to female sexuality and erotic depictions of women by male artists.

Joan Sherman: Young Artists Look at Old Masters Joan Sherman 2011

In it, she responds to Bernini's "St Theresa," challenging the tradition of the male as artist and the female as muse/ model/saint.

Joan Sherman: Young Artists Look at Old Masters Joan Sherman 2011

Bernini's "Ecstasy of St. Theresa" is charged, for me, with questions pertaining to female sexuality and erotic depictions of women by male artists.

Joan Sherman: Young Artists Look at Old Masters Joan Sherman 2011

Musei Capitolini, Rome BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO: Bernini's 'Medusa,' the relic of a love affair gone bad, is on view in San Francisco.

In San Francisco, a Duped Lover's Stony Revenge Judith H. Dobrzynski 2011

Pope Alexander assumed that Bernini's achievements would honor his own wealthy clan, the Chigi, but only scholars remember the Chigi today.

The Heirloom City Dan Hofstadter 2011

Yet despite presenting a hilarious letter from Bernini's mamma pegging her son as an out-and-out "narcissist"—Mr. Mormando's term—the biographer exculpates the master of any really malicious double-dealing.

The Heirloom City Dan Hofstadter 2011

The patronage (largely pontifical, but also royal and aristocratic) of the great sculptor-architect is the chief subject of Franco Mormando's lovingly researched "Bernini: His Life and His Rome," which, for all its splendid erudition, freely resorts to American common speech to characterize the sheer viciousness of the Baroque papal oligarchs and Bernini's own egomania (most famously characterized by his ordering a servant to slash the face of his unfaithful mistress, Costanza Bonarelli).

The Heirloom City Dan Hofstadter 2011

In it, she responds to Bernini's "St Theresa," challenging the tradition of the male as artist and the female as muse/ model/saint.

Joan Sherman: Young Artists Look at Old Masters Joan Sherman 2011