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With lips somewhat parted and sight fixed on a point in the length, a amazing marble family portrait of Costanza Piccolomini looks alive. Carved by Gianlorenzo Bernini in 1636 - 37 for his own pleasure, the family portrait of Costanza is one of his most captivating works, but as yet little has been known about its subject. For years and years Costanza was discovered only as Bernini's mistress, who later incited his rage by betraying him for his brother. Publisher Sarah McPhee corrects and expands this history in her remarkable biography of an sculpture and its subject. Bernini's Much loved sets the bust and Costanza's own life - her childhood and noble name, her relationship, affair, show up from grace, and recovery - against the setting of Baroque Rome. Attractively written, this amazing history expands our knowledge of the girl whose cleverness and passion dished up as motivation for Bernini's celebrated sculpture, and who courageously forged a life for herself in the decades following its creation.
