The Baroque mankind

The Borghese gallery in Rome, and very much visitors go and exit and one figure, with papal cloth, walked among the paintings and sculptures; he turned and he looked a man that knelt and kissed the ring, other visitors were indifferent to strange cloth of pope, Urban 8^th (1568-1644), and he asked: “I didn’t understand if you are baroque or naturalist”, and Bernini(1598-1680): “I follow the human nature, sanctity, and the human nature if natural and baroque simultaneously; the pope stepped him in front a painting a Saint Jerome and he asked to the painter: “Who are you”, and he answered: “Michelangelo Merisi from Caravaggio(1571-1610)”, and the pope: “You are very clever and natural, compliment”, and the Caravaggio: “Thank you very much your sanctity”, and the gallery was full of painters that painted their portraits and sculptors; Gian Lorenzo led the pope in front his sculpture and the pope commented: “I didn’t understand if you are baroque or naturalist”, and Bernini: “I follow the human nature, sanctity, and the human nature if natural and baroque simultaneously”, and the pope: “What?”, and Bernini: “You must look the portrait of Scipio Borghese cardinal”(Fig.1), and pope: “Where is it?”, and Gian Lorenzo led him to portrait, that Urban gazed, and Gian Lorenzo: “I have picked a posture, a moment and a reaction of cardinal that is natural, because but today it is called baroque, and the natural reaction is baroque because the human gender is natural during his behavior, but it baroque in art; hence one is from other, this is the baroque is naturalism and the naturalism is baroque”, and the pope it is explication from my monument in Vatican(Fig.2), during baroque era, because we were in 1647, and you wanted a natural posture but also baroque, because after everybody has called so”, and Bernini: “Yes, you have very much confidence with baroque because you have called Pietro Berrettini called Cortona(1596-1669), for frescoed the vault of your family palace(Fig.3), and pope, while he is looking a sculpture: “Yes, in fact the birth of baroque style is from Cortona”, and Gian Lorenzo: “I think that the celebration of your family has been to baroque, but that is alone a celebration, that have to be emphatic and almost hieratic, because the costumer was the papal family”, and the pope: “Yes, but Pietro from Cortona has given title to his book The treat around the painting and sculpture and its use and abuse”, and Bernini: “In that occasion the painter was useful to celebration of Barberini family, and there the abuse was not”, Urban smiled and: “I want that you work for me”, and Gian Lorenzo: “I am waiting your orders sanctity”, and Urban: “You have same politeness of Pietro from Cortona, but of your good behavior you artists didn’t and will not do write around the abuses”, and Gian Lorenzo: “The our life depends from our good education, and the politeness is our false identity, because we have other reaction to our colleagues”. Urban smiled and: “I want that you accomplish me in this gallery, and you must explain every work”, and Gian Lorenzo: “Willingly and…”, Urban interrupted him and: “I have a baldachin in Vatican and I am searching a artist, this is my compensation”, Gian Lorenzo knelt and: “This is a painting of Giovanni Lanfranco(1582-1647)…”.

Alessandro Lusana     

 

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