The Artist and the Eternal City: Bernini, Pope Alexander VII, and The Making of Rome | 
pickI enjoyed this book which is in part a biography of Bernini and his working with various popes, mostly Alexander VII, to beautify Rome. It‘s a physically heavy book without chapter breaks that made it flow quickly. I especially liked the info about Egyptian obelisks and the gritty details of Bernini‘s love for Constanza. It‘s interesting that we think of an artist as one man for his concepts, but so many artists contributed to these works.
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