118 pages; 8vo (8.75") 22 cm; Hardcover, gray faux marbled boards, [xviii] + 118 pages + 8 plates, 144 total pages, tan endpapers, appendix list of works by Bernini, 10 b/w drawings on glossy plates. ; Translated from the Italian by Catherine Engass. Introduction by Robert Enggass. Originally published in Italy in 1682, this biography of great artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) written by famed Florentine connoisseur Filippo Baldinucci (1624-1694) (who wrote some of the earliest histories of European art) was not published unabridged in English until this edition, 1966. ; Book shows almos... View More...
