As you approach Saint Peter's over the Ponte Sant'Angelo, you're in the company of Bernini's angels.

当你途径Ponte Sant'Angelo去圣彼得大教堂时，天使将会一路陪伴着你。

Despite all the genteel charm, Bernini was known to have a low boiling point.

尽管表面上是温文尔雅，但是大家都道他是个容忍度很低人。

Here's the thing, the artist is a robot, Italian tech company Robotor created a 13-foot-tall stone chisel in Michelangelo Bernini wannabe that's recreating a famous 19th century Italian sculpture here.

重点在于，这位艺术家是个机器人，意大利科技公司Robotor为米开朗基罗&效仿者制作了一个13英尺高，让其在此重现著名19世纪意大利雕塑。

Bernini would certainly have known about Saint Teresa. Her autobiography was a bestseller in Catholic Rome.

肯定道关于圣人特雷萨事迹，她自传是天主教罗马畅销书。

Look at these two churches, just 200 yards away from each other, in Rome. One by Bernini, the other by Borromini.

看看这两座罗马教堂，它们仅相隔200码距离，建造者一个是，另一个是巴洛米。

But in the end, he never really felt he got true recognition and he never got over Bernini's comeback.

但是直到最后，他都没有觉得自己受到认可，也没能从回归带来打击中恢复过来。

Bernini has scorched his own arm in a naked flame, screaming in a mirror to get the expression just right.

把自己胳膊伸到火焰上，然后通过镜子正好看到自己尖叫表情。

''Watch out, Signor Bernini, '' an admiring cardinal said, ''The boy will surpass his master.''

“先生，要注意了”，“这个孩子将来肯定青出于蓝”。

In keeping with the Baroque age, Bernini's Rape of Persephone packs an emotional punch.

为了与巴洛克时代保持一致， 《强奸珀耳塞福涅》充满了情感冲击。

She tells him about her life, about the building she passes on her way to the market, the Pantheon, a Baroque church designed by Bernini, which she hadn't even realized were famous.

她向他讲述了自己生活，讲到了她在去市场路上会经过一栋建筑， 帕纳神庙，一座由尔设计巴洛克风格教堂， 她甚至都没意识到那座建筑很有名。

Well, Bernini's new wife wouldn't have it in the house.

新夫人当然不想把它摆在家里。

Bernini's David is textbook Baroque. Bursting with life, David's body - wound like a spring and lips pursed as he prepares to slay the giant - shows the determination of the age.

尔大卫是教科书般巴洛克风格。 大卫身体充满活力——伤口像弹簧一样缠绕，嘴唇紧抿，准备杀死巨人——显示了这个时代决心。

The only way that Bernini could possibly communicate the flood of her sensation was to make visible what he knew of bodily ecstasy.

此时传达特雷萨感情洪流唯一方法就是把他所道那些身体兴奋反应可视化。

The high altar, like so much of the art decorating the Vatican, is another masterpiece by Bernini.

高坛，就像许多装饰梵蒂冈艺术品一样， 是尔另一杰作。

One pope, Gregory XV, makes him a knight, so Bernini is known ever after as the Cavalierer.

其中教皇格列高利十五世就赐他一个爵位，于是就有了一个骑士称谓。

The Cornaro dynasty, who were patrons of her austere order of nuns, the Barefoot Carmelites, jumped in and presented Bernini with the biggest challenge of his career, but also the chance for a spectacular comeback.

而柯尔纳罗家族，正是对她创立赤足加尔默罗会修女们那种简朴仪式赞助人，他突然出现在面前，给他带来了其事业生涯上最大挑战，但同时也是一个重拾荣光机会。

Bernini was just twenty five when he sculpted this - and the face of David is his.

(Bernini) 雕刻这尊雕像时年仅 25 岁——大卫脸是他。

If two men were responsible for creating the look of baroque Rome, for making Rome Rome, those two men were Borromini and Bernini.

如果说有两个人应该为罗马巴洛克式面貌，为罗马之所以成为罗马负责话，那么他们就是和巴洛米。

The demolition takes 11 months. If Bernini had been anywhere near Saint Peter's, he would've seen it and heard it.

拆除进行了11个月，如果在圣彼得教堂附近话，他肯定会道。