Thursday, November 20, 2014

Saint Longinus by Bernini

It is clearly a Baroque work art because it represents a fleeting moment (the conversion of Longinus to Christianity, as I’ve said before) that makes the people amazed and it has a lot of details: in his face, his expression, his clothes, the decoration… The columns of this sculpture are solomonic columns Bernini added to this sculpture four relics related to Saint Peter:
-A piece of cranium of Saint Andrew (his brother).
-A piece of the Vera Cross (found by Saint Elena).
-The veil of Saint Verónica.
-A piece of the Lance of Passion of Christ.
It had a great influence on his disciples Alessandro Algardi and François Duquesnoy, who opened an important school dedicated to his genres and registers.

Some curiosities:


The author of this sculpture was Gian Lorenzo Bernini between 1628 and 1638 (Italy), an Italian sculptor, architect and painter. He was the most prestigious sculptor of the Baroque.
It is made up of marble, polychrome wood and bronze. It’s 300 cm high. It is nowadays in the Basilica of Saint Peter, in Rome. He made over twenty proves of Saint Longinus in mud. Bernini used to represent the most important part of the life of the people in his works, for example, in the Bible that explains Longinus was one of the Roman centurions who took Jesus Christ to the cross. When Jesus Christ was on the cross, he looked at him and said: “he was the real God’s son” so that is what the sculpture represents, his transformation to Christianity (and that’s why Bernini made him looking at a celestial light which passes through the dome). As we can see, Saint Longinus face represents the victory.


                                         
Bernini liked to play with the mixture of materials to create shadows, movement and realism.


2 comments:

Paqui Pérez Fons said...

Hello Marta,

This text is not ordered. I thing you copied the end at the beginning. Another confusing thing is that you included the sources in the middle of the text. It’s better that you copy all of them together after the text, except for the sources of the pictures, that have to be below every of them, and don’t write them in brackets. I don’t like that you used El rincón del vago as a source. This is not a good website.


Please, reorder the text in the right way when you correct it. These are the corrections I’ve made:

- It is clearly a Baroque work art because it represents a fleeting moment (the conversion of Longinus to Christianity... The columns of this sculpture are Solomonic columns.

- The author of this sculpture was Gian Lorenzo Bernini between 1628 and 1638 (Italy), an Italian sculptor, architect and painter.

- It is made up of marble, polychrome(d) wood and bronze. It’s 300 cm high. It is nowadays in the Basilica of Saint Peter, in Rome.

-...the most important part of the life of the people in his works, for example, (is written in) the Bible explains that Longinus was one of the Roman centurions who took Jesus Christ to the cross. When Jesus Christ was on the cross, he looked at him and said: “he was the real God’s son” so that is what the sculpture represents, his transformation to Christianisy (and that’s why Bernini made him looking at a celestial light which passes through the dome). As we can see, Saint Longinus face represents the victory.


-A piece of cranium of Saint Andrew (his brother).

-A piece of the Vera Cross (found by Saint Elena).

-The veil of Saint Veronica.

-A piece of the Lance of Passion of Christ.


- It had a great influence on his disciples...

Your mark is 8. See you.


Paqui Pérez Fons said...

I have made your pictures bigger, so that we can appreciate the details better. Bye.