Art Crushes: Gianlorenzo Bernini

I am an art nerd. I grew up going to museums, volunteering summers as a docent, drawing, and eventually studied art history, which led to several lucky trips abroad. For art lovers, there are moments you always remember, when you see a work that really moves you for the first time. For me, one of these happened in my first art history survey in college. My school, rather than having two surveys covering the entirety of art history, broke it down into several specifications. The first one I took was Renaissance and Baroque. My professor eventually became my advisor, and one day in class she put up a slide that took my breath away: Gianlorenzo Bernini's David.