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In what ways did Bernini go about uniting architecture, sculpting and painting to create what his biographer Filippo Baldnucci called ‘a beautiful whole’?
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In what ways did Bernini go about uniting architecture, sculpting and painting to create what his biographer Filippo Baldnucci called 'a beautiful whole'? Bernini went about the unification of sculpture, architecture and painting to a 'beautiful whole' in the commissions of a few chapels, particularly that of the Cornaro family in Santa Maria della Vittoria and with the building of three small churches notably San Andrea al Quirinale, Rome. It can be argued that Bernini right from the beginning of his career endeavoured to eliminate the barrier between the work of art and the beholder. Works such as his Pluto and Persephone (1621-25) surpassed the constraints of marble and invited the viewer to view the work from many angles. Even so Wittkower believes it was only when Bernini had the chance to 'carry out, not only a part with in an existing structure, but a whole, consisting of...
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