Many readers will know that our intrepid photographer, Susan Sanders, recently made a trip to the United States. There, risking arrest and/or harassment by over-eager security guards in Macy’s, she snapped some photos of Baroque artist Gianlorenzo Bernini’s latest project.
Bernini, it seems, has risen from his grave in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore and is testing his mettle in the fashion industry. He’s shortened his given name, now going by the hipper and easier-on-the-English-speaker appellation, Giani Bernini (the first name is pronounced “Johnny”), and he’s designing handbags.
Frankly, we don’t think that much of his pocketbooks — a few hundred years in the grave seems to have dulled his sense of style. The purses lack the panache that characterizes his seventeenth-century sculptures, and, he’s taken a page from Chanel in creating a logo of interlocking “Gs.” No wonder they’re 40% off!
For more photos by Susan Sanders, visit her blog: Rome With A View.
