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 Rudolf Wittkower, the sculpture is in the Palazzo di Spagna in Rome. This may well be what is known today as the Palazzo Monaldeschi.[2]
| Damned Soul | |
|---|---|
| Latin: Anima damnata | |
 | |
| Artist | Gian Lorenzo Bernini |
| Year | 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) |
There is a bronze copy, executed by Massimiliano Soldani Benzi some time between 1705 and 1707, 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
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edit- ^ a b 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]
- ^ Wittkower 1955, pp. 237–238.
- ^ Rowland, Ingrid D. (2015-06-04). "Bernini: He Had the Touch". The New York Review of Books.
{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires|magazine=(help) - ^ "Bernini Artworks & Famous Sculptures". The Art Story.
References
edit- 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.
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