Narrator:  And later Baroque artists , like Bernini , delighted in the emotive close - up , the tears and open lips and restless movement - all those devices that were to be rediscovered in the movies . The extraordinary thing is that Baroque artists did it in bronze and marble , and not on celluloid . Of course , in a way , it 's a frivolous comparison , because however much _ one _ admires the films , one must admit that they are often vulgar , always ephemeral , whereas the work of Bernini is ideal and eternal .