Borromini and Bernini – The Challenge for Perfection
A journey into the great beauty of baroque Rome, when city was the centre of western art and where every ambitious painter, sculptor and architect had to be.
- Borromini e Bernini. Sfida alla perfezione
- Italy 2023
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- Czech
- 106 min.
- Přístupný
This is the story of the most famous artistic rivalry of all time, the one
between Borromini and Bernini, but also the story of Borromini’s rivalry with
himself: a genius so absorbed by his art that he turns it into a demon that
devours him from the inside forcing him to choose death to reach eternity.
Borromini deprived himself of everything to pursue a dream: to conquer Rome. It
is the story of the architectural revolution of a solitary maestro who changed
the appearance of Rome forever, by pushing himself to his limit, but also by
battling conventions and prejudices, with the humility to learn from the past to
invent the future, with the courage to pursue an idea despite knowing he would
pay the price in the end.
Places / works in Rome: Barberini Palace, St Peter’s canopy, San Carlo alle
Quattro Fontane, Sant’Andrea al Quirinale, Basilica of Saint John Lateran,
Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona, St Peter’s colonnade and Villa
Adriana Tivoli.
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