Photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen.
"... a lovely anecdote about the Baroque prodigy, Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). Even as a youth, Bernini was completely absorbed in his work. He was quite content to spend most of his waking hours holed up in his studio, chiseling away at one sculpture or another. After a few months of this, Bernini's father began to worry that his son's love life would suffer. One day he finally told Gianlorenzo that he was letting his (very) eligible bachelorhood go to waste. To which the young man replied: "It's true, I don't have a girlfriend—I have 16 of them."
From one sleepless night
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