Although rendered in stone, the sculptures of Gian Lorenzo Bernini convey a sense of weightlessness perhaps unequalled in the history of Western art. This program illustrates Bernini's nearly miraculous ability to turn marble into a vessel of raptur...
This program's focus is on the Baroque and the Dutch masters, including Vermeer, Rembrandt, Rubens, Caravaggio and Bernini, who coupled with spectacular new limits of realism and expression that fostered such great art as Las Meninas, Marriage a la ...