Bernini revisited is a collection of nine essays on seldom addressed aspects of the work of Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Most of the texts deal with sculpture and the related drawings but there are some references to Bernini's paintings and observations on his architectural projects. The topics include a study of the personal mode of Bernini's drawing, the optical foreshortening phenomena and their artistic remedies, aspects of laterality and meaning of gestures, the figures' physiognomic typology and their facial expressions, self portraits and role-portraits and graphic and sculptural caricatures.

This book presents seventeen analytic art historical studies of the various meanings of laterality in pictures, drawings, and prints as well as reliefs and sculptures. The discussion describes the effects of the spontaneous projection upon an artistic composition of the human experience of laterality and refers also to the beholder's habit of directional reading. The survey of the works of art ranges from the Late Antique murals of Dura Europos and religious imagery of the Middle Ages to the works of great Renaissance masters such as Giotto, Piero della Francesca, Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo as well as those of the Mannerists painters; two chapters on the graphic work of Albrechr Durer and of Rembrandt are followed by a study of some seldom considered aspects of the paintings of Ingres; contemporary art is represented by the expressionist works of Soutine, a selection of Italian Futurist paintings and some of the most representative works by Piet Mondrian. Referring to the iconographical traditions of the various subjects as well as the cultural and psychological backgrounds of each artist the author offers fresh insights into the works meaning.

This book contains thirteen essays on some of the most significant works of the foremost Jewish sculptor of the twentieth century. Stressing the lasting impression of his early Jewish upbringing the studies reveal its impact even in Lipchit's interpretation of non-Jewish themes. Special attention is given to his emotional reaction to the horrors of the Holocaust and to the subsequent establishment of independent Jewish State. Discussion of individual works refers to Lipchitz's autobiography and his personality and culture indicating the possible sources of his creative inspiration.