Episode 299 - Bernini’s Towers for St. Peter’s
Rebuilding The Renaissance - Een podcast door Rocky Ruggiero - Woensdagen
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In 1637, Pope Urban VIII decided to let his superstar artist, Gian Lorenzo Bernini realize a project that had been abandoned 25 years earlier – bell towers at either end of the façade of St. Peter’s in Rome. The project would end up being the greatest failure of Bernini’s long, illustrious career.
