For a more nuanced, cautious discussion of the traditional hagiographic view of Bernini as "fervent Catholic" and of his art as simply a direct manifestation of his personal faith, see Mormando, "Bernini's Religion: Myth and Reality", pp. 60–66 of the Introduction to his critical, annotated edition, Domenico Bernini, The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, University Park, Penn State U Press, 2011. See also the same author's article, 'Breaking Through the Bernini Myth' in the online journal, Berfrois, 11 October 2012: [1]
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Rice, Louise (2017). "Poussin's Elephant". Renaissance Quarterly. 70 (2): 548–593. doi:10.1086/693181. The primary source for this information is Chapter 17 of Domenico Bernini's biography of his father: see Mormando, 2011, p. 192.
Rice, Louise (2017). "Poussin's Elephant". Renaissance Quarterly. 70 (2): 548–593. doi:10.1086/693181. The primary source for this information is Chapter 17 of Domenico Bernini's biography of his father: see Mormando, 2011, p. 192.
Gallery.caArchived 31 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Gale, Thomson (2004). "Gian Lorenzo Bernini". Encyclopedia of World Biography. For a list of Bernini's siblings, see Franco Mormando, Bernini: His Life and His Rome (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011), pp. 2–3. Note that the primary source for much of the information about Bernini's life comes from the biography written by his youngest son Domenico. For a scholarly, annotated English translation of the latter, see Franco Mormando, ed. and trans., Domenico Bernini, Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, University Park, Penn State Univ. Press, 2011.
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For Bernini's marriage to Caterina, and a list of Bernini's children, see Franco Mormando, Bernini: His Life and His Rome, University of Chicago Press, 2011, pp. 109–16. See also "Caterina Tezio Bernini". Geni.com. 27 October 1617.
For these visual details of the statue and an examination of the charge of indecency, see Franco Mormando, 'Did Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Teresa Cross a 17th-century Line of Decorum?,' Word and Image, 39:4, 2023: 351-83 (Mormando's answer is yes.)[2]
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"Bernini". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
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Gallery.caArchived 31 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Gale, Thomson (2004). "Gian Lorenzo Bernini". Encyclopedia of World Biography. For a list of Bernini's siblings, see Franco Mormando, Bernini: His Life and His Rome (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011), pp. 2–3. Note that the primary source for much of the information about Bernini's life comes from the biography written by his youngest son Domenico. For a scholarly, annotated English translation of the latter, see Franco Mormando, ed. and trans., Domenico Bernini, Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, University Park, Penn State Univ. Press, 2011.