Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Prolegomena to the Interdisciplinary Study of Bernini?s Biographies

Maarten Delbeke, Evonne Levy, and Steven F. Ostrow

1 At the Margins of the Historiography of Art: The Vite of Bernini Between Autobiography and Apologia

Tomaso Montanari

2 Bernini?s Voice: From Chantelou?s Journal to the Vite

Steven F. Ostrow

3 Plotting Bernini: A Triumph over Time

John D. Lyons

4 Chapter 2 of Domenico Bernini?s Vita of His Father: Mimeses

Evonne Levy

5 ?Always Like Himself?: Character and Genius in Bernini?s Biographies

Robert Williams

6 Bernini Portraits, Stolen and Nonstolen, in Chantelou?s Journal and the Bernini Vite

Rudolf Preimesberger

7 Gianlorenzo on the Grill: The Birth of the Artist in His ?Primo Parto di Divozione?

Heiko Damm

8 Gianlorenzo Bernini?s Bel Composto: The Unification of Life and Work in Biography and Historiography

Maarten Delbeke

9 From Mascardi to Pallavicino: The Biographies of Bernini and Seventeenth-Century Roman Culture

Eraldo Bellini

10 Costanza Bonarelli: Biography Versus Archive

Sarah McPhee

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

Bernini's Biographies: Critical Essays

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