ITALIAN BAROQUE SCULPTURE PB – BRUCE BOUCHER

The sculptural flowering of the Italian Baroque – the sensuous beauty of Bernini s Apollo and Daphne; the spectacular papal tombs in St Peter s; dramatic altarpieces such as the mystical Ecstasy of St Teresa; and Rome s dazzling fountains – boldly transcended the traditional limitations of artistic media. Often dismissed in the past for creating a sham world to distract the observer s attention with dazzling technical displays, the sculpture of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italy is here reassessed for the first time in more than a generation. It is an invaluable critical survey of Italian Baroque sculpture.