The Borghese Gallery is staging a red-letter exhibition that will long – if not always – be considered one of the most important ever devoted to Bernini.
It was an enormous prospect. Since the major retrospective staged for the opening of the Borghese gallery twenty years ago, exhibitions on Bernini have followed on regularly, at the Palazzo Barberini in 2007 and 2015, the Getty and the National Gallery of Canada in 2008, the Bargello in 2009, and the Metropolitan Museum and Kimbell Art Museum in 2012. But Anna Coliva, director of the gallery (which contains "Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius", "The Rape of Proserpina", "David", "Apollo and Daphne" and "Truth Unveiled by Time") clearly loves a challenge. Not only has she succeeded in getting together the largest group of Bernini marbles ever assembled – thirty sculptures –, but she also retraces the entire career of the sculptor…
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