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Art Review - Bernini and Some of His Greatest Faces, Convened at the Getty

Although there are works in the show by artists other than Bernini, he is at its center just as he was at the center of the art we call Italian Baroque, a period style defined by virtuosic naturalism, kinetic emotionalism and high-flying formal glamour. It was an aesthetic of large personalities, and Bernini had one.

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