Bernini's biographies: critical essays

Prolegomena the interdisciplinary study of Bernini's biographies / Maarten Delbeke, Evonne Levy and Steven F. Ostrow

1. At the margins of the historiography of art : the Vite of Bernini between autobiography and apologia / Tomaso Montanari

2. Bernini's voice : from Chantelou's Journal to the Vite / Steven F. Ostrow

3. Plotting Bernini : a triumph over time / John D. Lyons

4. Chapter 2 of Domenico Bernini's Vita of his father : mimeses / Evonne Levy

5. "Always like himself" : character and genius in Bernini's biographies / Robert Williams

6. Bernini portraits, stolen and nonstolen, in Chantelou's Journal and the Bernini Vite / Rudolf Preimesberger

7. Gianlorenzo on the grill : the birth of the artist in his "Primo Parto di Divozione" / Heiko Damm

8. Gianlorenzo Bernini's Bel Composto : the unification of life and work in biography and historiography / Maarten Delbeke

9. From Mascardi to Pallavicino : the biographies of Bernini and seventeenth-century Roman culture / Eraldo Bellini

10. Costanza Bonarelli : biography versus archive / Sarah McPhee.