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    • Gian Lorenzo Bernini

    Italian sculptor and architect (1598–1680)

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    Gian Lorenzo Bernini

    Self-portrait of Bernini, c. 1623, Galleria Borghese, Rome

    Born

    Gian Lorenzo Bernini


    (1598-12-07)7 December 1598

    Naples, Kingdom of Naples

    Died28 November 1680(1680-11-28) (aged 81)

    Rome, Papal States

    Known forSculpture, painting, architecture
    Notable workDavid, Apollo and Daphne, The Rape of Proserpina, Fontana del Tritone
    MovementBaroque style
    Patron(s)CardinalScipione Borghese

    Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (, ; Italian:[ˈdʒanloˈrɛntsoberˈniːni]; Italian Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 1598 – 28 November 1680) was an Italian sculptor and architect. While a major figure in the world of architecture, he was more prominently the leading sculptor of his age, credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture.

    As one scholar has commented, "What Shakespeare is to drama, Bernini may be to sculpture: the first pan-European sculptor whose name is instantaneously identifiable with a particular manner and vision, and whose influence was inordinately powerful ..." In addition, he was a painter (mostly small canvases in oil) and a man of the theatre: he wrote, directed and acted in plays (mostly Carnival satires), for which he designed stage sets and theatrical machinery. He produced designs as well for a wide variety of decorative art objects including lamps, tables, mirrors, and even coaches.

    As an architect and city planner, he designed secular buildings, churches, chapels, and public squares, as well as massive works combining both architecture and sculpture, especially elaborate public fountains and funerary monuments and a whole series of temporary structures (in stucco and wood) for funerals and festivals. His broad technical versatility, boundless compositional inventiveness and sheer

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    Gian Lorenzo Bernini

    113 artworks

    Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, designer, restorer and playwright

    Born 1598 - Died 1680

    Born in Naples (Napoli, Campania, Italy)

    Died in Rome (Lazio, Italy)

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    List of works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

    Image Title Location Year
    Type
    Material
    The Goat Amalthea with the Infant Jupiter and a FaunGalleria Borghese, Rome 1609–1615
    Sculpture
    Marble
    Height 44 cm (17.3 in) 1
    Bust of Giovanni Battista SantoniSanta Prassede, Rome 1613–1616
    Sculpture
    Marble
    Life-size 2
    A Faun Teased by ChildrenMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1616–1617
    Sculpture
    Marble
    Height 132 cm (52 in) NA
    The Martyrdom of Saint LawrenceUffizi, Florence 1617
    Sculpture
    Marble
    66 cm × 108 cm (26 in × 43 in) 3
    Saint SebastianThyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid 1617–1618
    Sculpture
    Marble
    Under life-size 4
    Bust of Giovanni VigevanoSanta Maria sopra Minerva, Rome 1617–1618
    Sculpture
    Marble
    Life-size 5
    Bust of Pope Paul VGalleria Borghese, Rome 1618
    Sculpture
    Marble
    Height 35 cm (14 in) 6
    Damned SoulPalace of Spain, Rome 1619
    Sculpture
    Marble
    Life-size 7
    Blessed SoulPalace of Spain, Rome 1619
    Sculpture
    Marble
    Life-size 7
    Aeneas, Anchises, and AscaniusGalleria Borghese, Rome 1618–1619
    Sculpture
    Marble
    Life-size 8
    Neptune and TritonVictoria and Albert Museum, London 1620
    Sculpture
    Marble
    Height 182 cm (72 in) 9
    The Rape of ProserpinaGalleria Borghese, Rome 1621–1622
    Sculpture
    Marble
    Height 225 cm (89 in) 10
    Sleeping HermaphroditusThe Louvre, Paris 1620
    Sculpture
    Marble
    Length 169 cm (67 in) 11(1)
    Barberini FaunGlyptothek, Munich 1621–1622
    Sculpture
    Marble
    Restoration 11(2)
    Ludovisi AresNational Museum of Rome, Rome 1622
    Sculpture
    Marble
    Restoration 11(3)
    Bust of Pope Gregory XVArt Gallery of Ontario, Toronto 1621
    Sculpture
    Marble
    Height 64 cm (25 in) 12
    Bust of Monsignor Pedro de Foix MontoyaSanta Maria di Monserrato, Rome 1621
    Sculpture
    Marble
    Life-size 13
    Bust of Cardinal Escoubleau de SourdisM

    Gian Lorenzo Bernini

    Bernini was the dominant artist of 17th-century Rome. Under successive popes he became virtual dictator of the arts. He was responsible for town planning schemes as well as for church buildings and interiors, including St Peter's in the Vatican.

    Bernini was born in Naples in 1598, the son of a Florentine sculptor, Pietro Bernini. His precocious talent was manifested in a series of sculptures made for Cardinal Scipione Borghese. In Rome he designed and supervised projects that integrated architecture, painting and sculpture, such as the Cornaro chapel in S. Maria della Vittoria, which contains the statue of 'The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa'.

    He was also the originator of the figurative Baroque fountains of Rome, such as the Four Rivers on the Piazza Navona. Bernini's colonnade in front of St Peter's transformed the approach to the church into a magnificent reception area for pilgrims to the city.

    Bernini was not primarily a painter; his few pictures are mainly head studies and portraits. The 'Saints Andrew and Thomas' in this Collection shows some of the animation later realised in his sculpture. The work of Caravaggio influenced his painting style, and he was also an admirer of Rubens and Poussin.

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