Great Art Explained: Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne

Great Books Explained here - @greatbooksexplained371 Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon, thanks! or if you prefer a one-off donation - At the age of 8, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the child prodigy, was presented to the Pope - who prophetically announced that the child would be the Michelangelo of his age. Bernini would not only raise the sculpted human figure to unseen levels of realism, but he would dominate the 17th century like no other, as a painter, an architect, as a playwright and of course as a sculptor, and come to be seen as the embodiment of the age of the baroque. IMPORTANT! Subscribe and click the bell icon to be notified! I would like to thank all my Patreon supporters, in particular Adriana Nemet, Alan Stewart, Alexander Velser, Alyssa Phillips, Anja Zeutschel, Brook