(-Villa Borghese-) Bernini, it’s safe to say, is good at what he does. His attention to detail is so intense that it gives the figures a cartoonish exaggerated appearance. Which I like. It’s nice. That’s where it stops. His craft is top notch. Maybe even top shelf. But that’s about it.
His work is of the same thing that artists have been sculpting/painting/etch-a-sketching for well over a thousand years before him. With a few exceptions, the renaissance art we viewed progresses in terms of skill, not content. But, with something so enticing, I have a hard time saying that this is bad. In fact I’m okay that his work stops at the visual. It’s just so nice looking. There’s always one little thing left to look at.
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