BORROMINI AND BERNINI – A CHALLENGE TO PERFECTION

23 Jan 2024
19:00
Olomouc Archdiocesan Museum
Film
BORROMINI AND BERNINI – A CHALLENGE TO PERFECTION
BORROMINI A BERNINI – VÝZVA K DOKONALOSTI

A journey to the beauty of Baroque Rome, when the city was the centre of Western art and where every ambitious painter, sculptor or architect had to work. The documentary Borromini and Bernini – A Challenge to Perfection tells the story of the most famous artistic rivalry of all time, the rivalry between Borromini and Bernini, but also the story of Borrominis rivalry with himself. He was so consumed by his art that it turned him into a demon that consumed him from within, forcing him to choose death in order to achieve eternity…