Suggested Reading
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On Bernini
Charles Avery, Bernini: Genius of the Baroque. (London, 1997).
Giovanni Careri, Bernini: Flights of Love. (Chicago, 1995)
Martin Delbeke ed., Bernini's Biographies: Critical Essays. (University Park, Pennsylvania, 2006)
Ivan Gaskell & Henry Lie eds., Sketches in Clay for Projects by Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Theoretical, Technical, and Case Studies. (Cambridge, MA, 1999).
Howard Hibbard, Bernini. (Harmondsworth, 1965)
Irving Lavin, Bernini and the Unity of the Visual Arts. (Oxford, 1980)
Irving Lavin, Visible Spirit: the Art of Gianlorenzo Bernini. (London, 2007)
Rudolf Wittkower, Bernini: the Sculptor of the Roman Baroque. (London, 1997)
Bernini’s Biographers
Filippo Baldinucci, The Life of Bernini. (University Park, Pennsylvania, 2006).
Paul Fréart de Chantelou, Diary of the Cavaliere Bernini's Visit to France. (Princeton, 1985).
On Baroque Art and Society
Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Life and the Arts in the Baroque Palaces of Rome: Ambiente Barocco.(New Haven, 1999)
Francis Haskell, Patrons and Painters: a Study in the Relations between Italian Art and Society in the Age of the Baroque. (New Haven, 1980)
Richard Krautheimer, The Rome of Alexander VII, 1655-1667. (Princeton, 1985)
Toril Magnuson, Rome in the Age of Bernini. 2 vols. (Uppsala, 1982)
Jennifer Montagu, Roman Baroque Sculpture: the Industry of Art. (New Haven, 1989)
Jennifer Montagu, Gold, Silver and Bronze: Metal Sculpture of the Roman Baroque. (New Haven, 1996).
Laurie Nussdorfer, Civic Politics in the Rome of Urban VIII. (Princeton, 1992)
Peter Rietbergen, Power and Religion in Baroque Rome: Barberini Cultural Politics. (Leiden, 2006)
Aidan Weston-Lewis ed., Effigies and Ecstasies: Roman Baroque Sculpture and Design in the Age of Bernini. (Edinburgh, 1998)
Rudolf Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750. (New Haven, 1999)