Chapter I: Preface

The essays presented in the following pages are the product of no hasty thought. I am grateful to the kind friends who have encouraged their publication, and to the publishers for giving them so attractive a form.

The choice of illustrations has been difficult. It has seemed best, however, to reproduce in full the little-known sketches of Bernini showing the development, in his mind, of the design for the Piazza of St. Peter’s, and the sculptor’s models wrought by his own hands. For the rest I have thought that it would be more serviceable for the reader to have a few typical examples illustrating the main points of the text rather than a larger, and perhaps more confusing, selection of subjects from the almost inexhaustible wealth of available material. I am under deep obligation for the generous permission to include among the illustrations material in the Brandegee Collection (at Faulkner Farm, Brookline, Massachusetts) hitherto unpublished. The heliotype plates were prepared and printed under the direction of Mr. William C. Ramsay, of Boston.

RICHARD NORTON.

LONDON, July, 1914.

CONTENTS

BERNINI

I. AN ESTIMATE OF BERNINI 3
II. A COLLECTION OF SCULPTOR’S MODELS BY BERNINI 44
III. BERNINI’S DESIGNS FOR THE PIAZZA OF ST. PETER’S 50

ASPECTS OF THE ART OF SCULPTURE

I. THE ART OF PORTRAITURE, PARTICULARLY IN SCULPTURE 57
II. PHEIDIAS AND MICHAEL ANGELO 93
III. A HEAD OF ATHENA FOUND AT CYRENE 135

GIORGIONE