Walking by the Pantheon I always loved that cute Elephant statue, he seems so happy and playful I love it! Amazing to learn that one of my favorite sculptors made him, and for such a tender reason.
Great lecture! I heard a slightly different version of why Bernini's brother was exiled from Rome. He assaulted a boy behind a sculpture his brother was working on inside St Peters (The vision of Constantine). This was a huge scandal and Bernini himself was about to be exiled too, but his friend and great admirer, Christina, the Queen of Sweden, saved him.
As others have mentioned, his accent is all over the place. American then a bit English. I cant keep up😂 Either way it sounds "put on". But great topic and still was enjoyable to see Bernini's works presented.
No I can't see why the figure on the right makes you think that the fountain of the 4 rivers was the inspiration for the Eiffel Tower. no matter how closely I look 🤷🏼♀️
@@tcm81 I take your word for the Boston accent . But he's peppering it with some overly pronounced Oxbridge English. Sounds rather silly to be honest. (In my not so humble opinion )
@@spiritualanarchist8162 Well he a degree from the LSE and a PhD in art history from Cambridge. He probably picked up some of the accent while he was studying there. He was much mocked in the UK for his accent when he was on a show called MasterChef (the original version). Search for a sketch by Reeves and Mortimer of MasterChef that mocks his accent. It's on RU-vid and it's a very weird. In other words, he is not putting it on, it's just an artifact of where he grew up.
Its an artificial mid-Atlantic accent, one of many. Other examples include the plummy [originally] BBC accent--sort of OxBridge--as well as the 'twee' (overly and affectely sweet) pronunciation of, say, Lucy Worsely, which originated among certain class-conscious 18th Century British officers as a way of distinguishing themselves from (a) enlisted men, and (b) other officers.
@@knolselderij It's Lloyd Grossman. That's just how he talks. He was born and grew up in Boston, then moved to Britain in his 20's. Suggesting that his odd accent is a personal affectation - an American trying to sound like a posh Englishman.
