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...most important acquisitions of any of the college museums this year was the recent purchase by the Fogg Museum of 24 terra cotta statuettes in the manner of the great 17th century culptor. Bernini. Known in Italy as the Piancastelli Collection, they were first brought to this country in 1905 and are the largest group of such work outside of Rome...
...Fogg group is of special interest because some of the statuettes are models of famous Baroque works of Bernini. Among them are studies for the figure of Longinus, designed for one of the piers under the dome of St. Peter's in Rome, a figure for the gold and bronze Chair of St. Peter in the apse, and five angels intended for the Ponte S. Angelo on the Tiber...
...entirely possible that some of the figures are from the hand of Bernini, himself, and all are an expression of his greatness. They show his invention, his knowledge of the technique of sculpture, and his use of movement and contortion to express extreme emotion. They completely represent the genius and the powerful temperament of the great Baroque artist...
Through the generosity of Gabriel Wells the University has acquired a marble bust of Rene Descartes, by Giovanui Loronzo Bernini, an Italian sculptor of the Baroque period. The statue is now on exhibition in the loggia on the second floor of the Fogg Art Museum. The statue was presented in the memory of William James...
...bust, executed about 1646, was formerly in the Lord North collection and the Paget collection. Bernini was known especially for the characterization and realistic power of his portrait statues...