Bernini (Pelican Book A701)

Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1965. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic & Illustrations. list of plates, list of figures, foreword by author, bibliographical note, notes to the text and index. Black and white self-portrait of the artist, as a mature man, to the verso of the front panel. Black and white self-portrait (of a much younger man) frontispiece, and, throughout the text there are black-and-white photographs of artworks, black-and-white illustrations and the occasional floorplan. Colour photographic paperback binding with white coloured titles to the front panel and black and white coloured titles to the back strip. "Gianiorenzo Bernini was the greatest sculptor and one of the greatest architects of the seventeenth century. Today his work is everywhere in evidence in Rome – in the design of the colonnaded piazza before St Peter's, in a sequence of magnificent Baroque fountains, in lavish and fantastic equity of enterprises within St Peter's itself, and in a number of portrait busts and mythological and religious cultures of unrival technical perfection and dramatic power." – from rear panel blurb. Minor creasing to the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Reading creases to the back strip and age toning of the text block edges and panels. First softcover edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 255, [1] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic & Illustrations. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Art & Design; Biography; Italy; 17th-century; Architecture. Inventory No: 0127750. .