Bernini, Benjamin West and the dirty secrets of art history

Lecture in English by Loyd Grossman 

 

Loyd Grossman, who is currently writing a book about the great baroque architect and sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), has lectured for us in the past about the Anglo-American painter Benjamin West (1738-1820). This lecture combines the two subjects.

 

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