Bust (sculpture): Difference between revisions

The round-bottomed Roman style, including, or designed to be placed on, a [[Socle (architecture)|socle]] (a short [[plinth]] or pedestal), became most common. [[Gian Lorenzo Bernini]], based in Rome, did portrait busts of popes, cardinals, and foreign monarchs such as [[Louis XIV]]. His [[Bust of King Charles I (Bernini)|Bust of King Charles I]] of England (1638) is now lost; artist and subject never met, and Bernini worked from the [[Charles I in Three Positions|triple portrait painted by Van Dyck]], which was sent to Rome. Nearly 30 years later, his [[Bust of Louis XIV (Bernini)|Bust of the young Louis XIV]] was hugely influential on French sculptors. Bernini's rival [[Alessandro Algardi]] was another leading sculptor in Rome.<ref>https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315613161-48/baroque-sculpture-materiality-question-movement-nigel-llewellyn</ref>