LUDOVICA ALBERTONI BY GIAN LORENZO BERNIN, ROME (1983)
Référence :
Original author print of a black and white photograph by Ferrante Ferranti. The artist explores the vestiges of the past through the play of shadows and light created by the sun on the ruins. With the soul of an archaeologist, this architect by training combines his photographic work with his passion for antiquity and the Baroque.
Length : 19.69 in / 50 cm
Height : 0.79 in / 2 cm
Width : 15.75 in / 40 cm
Weigth : 4.41 lb / 2 kg
LUDOVICA ALBERTONI BY GIAN LORENZO BERNIN, SAN FRANCESCO A RIPA, ROME, (1983)
Artist : Ferrante Ferranti
Technique : Original author print of a silver photograph on pearl baryta paper
Supervision: Under glass, black frame and white mat
Dimensions: 35 x 23.5 cm (frame 50 x 40 cm)
Number of copies: Single signed print.
Year: 1983
Inspiration: In the church of San Francesco a Ripa, Rome, Ferrante Ferranti captures Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s famous sculpture of Ludovica Albertoni.
The light reveals the tension of the body abandoned in spiritual ecstasy. The tormented folds of the drapery and the intensity of the expression sculpted by Bernini seem to vibrate in the half-light of the chapel.
Through his framing and his attention to light, Ferrante Ferranti transforms this baroque scene into a suspended vision, where the stone seems to be animated by an inner breath, between suffering and mystical rapture.
Ferrante Ferranti
FRANCE
Born January 13, 1960 in Algeria, of a Sardinian mother and a Sicilian father. He took his first photograph at the age of eighteen, a wave in Belle-Île-en-Mer. Passionate about Fernand Pouillon’s book, Les Pierres Sauvages, he began training as an architect in Toulouse, which he completed at Paris-UP6 in 1985 with a diploma in Theaters and scenography in the Baroque era. Traveling photographer, he has been involved for thirty years with Dominique Fernandez in a joint exploration of the Baroque and the different layers of civilizations, from Syria to Bolivia via Sicily and Saint Petersburg. His photographs dialogue with the texts of the writer, who defines him in the album Itinerrances (Actes Sud, 2013) as “the inventor of a language which links the sun to the ruins, in search of the meaning hidden in the forms” .
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