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    • David Franklin

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    Raphael crushes Michelangelo

    In a show about 100 years in the artistic life of Rome, one master prevails over all others

    Bernini’s lover. Oh, and his popes, too.

    After staring with growing interest into the faces of, by my rough count, four popes and seven cardinals, two monsignors, a dwarf and a king, I emerged from the National Gallery of Canada’s new show “Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture” thinking only about women.