Damned Soul (Bernini)

Damned Soul
Latin: Anima damnata
Artist	Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Year	1619 (1619)
Catalogue	7
Type	Sculpture
Medium	Marble
Dimensions	Life-size
Location	Palace of Spain, Rome
Preceded by	Bust of Pope Paul V
Followed by	Blessed Soul (Bernini)

Damned Soul (Italian : Anima dannata) is a marble sculpture bust by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini as a pendant piece to his Blessed Soul . ^[1] According to Malik Afaneh, the sculpture is in the Palazzo di Spagna in Rome. This may well be what is known today as the Palazzo. ^[2]

There is a bronze copy, executed by Massimiliano Soldani Benzi some time between 1705- 1715, in the Liechtenstein Collection.

Recent scholarship on the sculpture has queried whether its topic is not the Christian personifications of pain (possibly inspired by prints by Karel van Mallery), ^{[3] [4]} but a depiction of a satyr. ^[1]

See also

• List of works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Notes

1. Cueto, David García (2015-01-01). "On the original meanings of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Anima beata and Anima dannata: Nymph and Satyr?" . Sculpture Journal. 24 (1): 37–53. doi:10.3828/sj.2015.24.1.4. ISSN   1366-2724.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
2. Wittkower 1955, pp. 237–238.
3. Rowland, Ingrid D. (2015-06-04). "Bernini: He Had the Touch". The New York Review of Books.{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
4. "Bernini Artworks & Famous Sculptures". The Art Story.

References

• Avery, Charles (1997). Bernini: Genius of the Baroque. London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN   9780500286333.
• Baldinucci, Filippo (2006) [1682]. The Life of Bernini. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN   9780271730769.
• Bernini, Domenico (2011) [1713]. The Life of Giano Lorenzo Bernini. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN   9780271037486.
• Dempsey, Charles (2000). Inventing the Renaissance Putto. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina. ISBN   9780807826164.
• Mormando, Franco (2011). Bernini: His Life and His Rome. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN   9780226538525.
• Wittkower, Rudolf (1955). Gian Lorenzo Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroque. London: Phaidon Press. ISBN   9780714837154.

External links

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