ItalyStories.com Gian Lorenzo Bernini, born in Naples in 1598 and active above all in Rome, was the supreme artist of the Baroque age. Sculptor, architect, designer, draftsman, playwright, and master of theatrical imagination, Bernini transformed seventeenth-century Rome into a city…
The Rebel of Light and Shadow ItalyStories.com Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio entered European painting like a blade of light through darkness. Born in Milan in 1571 and associated by name with the Lombard town of Caravaggio, he lived only thirty-eight…
The Great Painter of the Seventeenth Century: Art, Strength and Independence Artemisia Gentileschi spent centuries being discussed as an exception before the world finally began to see her as what she had always been: a major painter. Her life contained…