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Great Books Explained here - @greatbooksexplained371 Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon, thanks! or if you prefer a one-off donation - At the age of 8, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the child prodigy, was presented to the Pope - who prophetically announced that the child would be the Michelangelo of his age. Bernini would not only raise the sculpted human figure to unseen levels of realism, but he would dominate the 17th century like no other, as a painter, an architect, as a playwright and of course as a sculptor, and come to be seen as the embodiment of the age of the baroque. IMPORTANT! Subscribe and click the bell icon to be notified! I would like to thank all my Patreon supporters, in particular Adriana Nemet, Alan Stewart, Alexander Velser, Alyssa Phillips, Anja Zeutschel, Brooks Kossover, Bria Nicole Art, David Asabreu, Christa Sawyer, Eric Mann, Erique K, Griffin Evans, Hugo Moita, Jemma Theivendran, John Baer, Julio Cardenas, Karim Hopper, Kibibi Shaw, Louise Tait, Monte St Johns, New Curiosity, Paul Ark, Paul Waterman, Pavel Juszczyk, Sean Welgemoed, Stefan Paisson, Stephen Beresford, Tanya Moore, Theresa Garfink, Toni Ko, and Will Dew's-Power. “What a brilliant series this is“ - Stephen Fry on Twitter SUBTITLES I input the English subtitles myself but I rely on volunteers to do subtitles for other languages and I really appreciate it - just contact me at jamespayne33@ Spanish Subtitles by Alma Perdomo (Gracias!) CREDITS Rome Footage including Apollo and Daphne by Joshua James Appleby (Thank you), whose excellent photography you can find here - Additional footage (Persephone) – Babi Targino Opening Animation and Title Sequence by Brian Adsit (instagram and Behance ) Sound Mix by Robert Lewis (Thank you!) VIDEOS Villa Borghese footage by Eric Clarke whose excellent channel you can find here - The Excellent Drone footage can be found here (please subscribe, it's a great channel) - All the videos, songs, images, and graphics used in the video belong to their respective owners and I or this channel do not claim any right over them. MUSIC G. F. Händel - Passacaglia in g-minor BOOKS Bernini: His Life and His Rome (Excellent!) by Franco Mormando Bernini and His World: Sculpture and Sculptors in Early Modern Rome by Livio Pestilli Bernini by Charles Scribner III Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.
