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Blessed Soul (Bernini)

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stated that the sculpture "has all the sweetness and perfect happiness expressed in her countenance that can be imagined." However, the Blessed Soul has not been considered one of Bernini's finest works in more recent times. Wittkower points to the "doughy hair of the Anima Beata", while Hibbard
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Recent scholarship on the sculpture has queried whether its topic is not the Christian personifications of blessedness but a depiction of a nymph.
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Cueto, David García (2015-01-01). "On the original meanings of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Anima beata and Anima dannata: Nymph and Satyr?".
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finds it uninspiring when compared to the Damned Soul, mentioning that 'virtuous appearances' do not translate too well into sculpture.
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Despite being relatively unknown, the Blessed Soul was noted by some visitors to Rome. In particular, the painter
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in Piazza di Spagna The set may have been inspired by
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The Goat Amalthea with the Infant Jupiter and a Faun
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Index


Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Palace of Spain
Rome
Damned Soul (Bernini)
Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius
Italian
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Damned Soul
San Giacomo degli Spagnuoli
Spanish Embassy to the Holy See
prints
Karel van Mallery
Joshua Reynolds
List of works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Rowland 2015
theartstory 2022


Wittkower 1955
Reynolds 1659
Hibbard 1990
Cueto 2015
doi
10.3828/sj.2015.24.1.4
ISSN
1366-2724
Bernini
ISBN
9780140135985

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