In a show about 100 years in the artistic life of Rome, one master prevails over all others
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Bernini’s lover. Oh, and his popes, too.
After staring with growing interest into the faces of, by my rough count, four popes and seven cardinals, two monsignors, a dwarf and a king, I emerged from the National Gallery of Canada’s new show “Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture” thinking only about women.