bernini

Neither Autodesk's Bernini nor Solidworks meet what a startup is able to do these days.

You've gotta see that one in person to truly appreciate what Bernini was able to do.

Instead, Bernini learned how to make marble itself interact with light to look alive.

If you visit Rome and see a Bernini in person you will understand.

But don't let that fool you it's jam packed with amazing Bernini sculptures.

The Bernini sculptures there are one of the few times I've been genuinely moved by something in a museum.

Early modern artists held up those paintless statues as the ideal form, which is why nobody from Michaelangelo to Bernini even tried to paint their sculptures.

Michelangelo and Bernini were among thousands and thousands of artists who were funded by the Church to create music, sculpture, architecture, images, and any other sacred object in their service.

> then we jump forward to Bernini and the total lack of paint, which makes it even more likely that there were competing philosophies around statuary Most Greek and Roman statues had lost their paint long before the Renaissance.

We can say that da-vinci, bernini, and cervantes did care about quality, but are all held at a remove, and the story of the critic bieng repremanded, by pointing out they, he not the mona lisa was on trial, is quite exact.

I maybe wasn't expecting Bernini level of realism, but "Augustus of Prima Porta" is around 2000 years old which greatly predates Renaissance tooling.

Compared to many other contemporaries of his time like Bernini(?), or even before him like the (OG) Michelangelo.

If you're ever in Rome make sure you get to the Borghese Gallery it has several of Bernini's best works.

Pick any famous piece by Raphael, Michelangelo, Bernini, Rembrandt...