1. Art History 2: Class 5
Note: The midterm is today in the second half of class. The material we discuss in the
first half of class today will not be on the midterm, it is for the final.
Names and terms: Gianlorenzo Bernini, Pietro Bernini, Rome, Pope Paul V, Maffeo
Barberini (Pope Urban VIII), Scipione Borghese, Pluto and Persephone, David, Apollo
and Daphne, “Ecstatic Baroque”/”High Baroque,” Ecstasy of St. Teresa, Giovanni
Lanfranco, Domenichino, St. Peter’s, Baldacchino, “Solomonic columns,” Cathedra
Petri, Piazza St. Peter’s, Scala Regia (Constantine), Fountain of the Four Rivers,
Sant’Andrea al Quirinale, Cornaro Chapel
Possible essay question:
--Discuss the career of Gianlorenzo Bernini, and the more “ecstatic” style of art that
proliferated in Rome during his lifetime. What were some of his important contributions
to St. Peter’s?
Images:
Baldacchino/St. Peter’s by Bernini, 1620s-30s, p.393
David by Bernini, 1623, p.396
Ecstasy of St. Teresa (Cornaro Chapel) by Bernini, 1640s-50s, p.398