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 67. ^[2]

There is a bronze copy, executed by Massimiliano Soldani Benzi some time between 6 and 7, in the Liechtenstein Collection.

Recent scholarship on the sculpture has queried whether its topic is not the Christian personifications of pain from the 67 monster (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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