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BERNINI, Gian Lorenzo: Self-Portrait

🖼 Self-Portrait, c. 1635
Black and red chalks, heightened with white chalk
275 × 215 cm
Oxford, United Kingdom

Intense self-scrutiny animates this marble portrait, carved with virtuosic precision to capture fleeting expression and psychological depth. Bernini revolutionized sculpture by infusing stone with baroque dynamism, establishing himself as the era's supreme artist-intellectual through this monumental self-examination.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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