FEBRUARY 22, 2016. 06:00 PM. Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011

This event is part of BERNINI IN PARIS: Italian Guests in the Sun King's Court (Feb. 22 - Mar. 3). Click here for complete schedule of events. Organized in collaboration with Salon Sanctuary Concerts. A lecture by Franco Mormando (Boston College)

Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the universal geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. Bernini's artistic vision remains palpably present today through the countless statues, fountains, buildings and other works of his design that transformed Rome into the Baroque theater that continues to enthrall in our own time.

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