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    The Bust of Antonio Cepparelli is a sculptural portrait bust by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It was executed around 1622. It is in the museum...
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    The Bust of Costanza Bonarelli is a marble sculpture created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini during the 1630's. The piece is currently being shown in the Museo...
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    Bernini's early works, the Rape of Proserpina was commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, alongside a bust in memory of Scipione's uncle, Pope Paul V...
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    as one of the artistic marvels of the Baroque age. The statue is housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, along with several other examples of the artist's...
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  • Thumbnail for Bust of Antonio Barberini (Bernini)
    The Bust of Antonio Barberini is a portrait sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The figure is Cardinal Antonio Barberini, the younger...
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    high altar of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the city-state and papal enclave surrounded by Rome, Italy. The baldachin is at the center of the crossing...
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  • Thumbnail for Chair of Saint Peter
    The Chair of Saint Peter (Latin: Cathedra Petri), also known as the Throne of Saint Peter, is a relic conserved in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City...
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    David (Bernini) (category Sculptures of David)
    was one of many commissions to decorate the villa of Bernini's patron Cardinal Scipione Borghese – where it still resides today, as part of the Galleria...
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    Gian Lorenzo Bernini (category Articles with National Gallery of Canada identifiers)
    Blessed Soul Bust of Antonio Cepparelli Bust of Pope Urban VIII Bust of Monsignor Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo Self-portrait Neptune and Triton Ecstasy of St. Teresa...
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    directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the papal enclave in Rome, directly west of the neighborhood (rione) of Borgo. Both square...
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    first decades of the 17th century—unearthed in the grounds of Santa Maria della Vittoria, near the Baths of Diocletian and within the bounds of the ancient...
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  • University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226538525. nationalgalleries (2019). "Portrait Bust of Monsignor Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo, Archbishop of Pisa (1547...
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    Cornaro Chapel of the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome. It was designed and carved by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the leading sculptor of his day, who...
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    carried out by Antonio Nibby in 1825, in which an inscription identifying the ownership of the site was found. At each of the four sites of the obelisk is...
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  • Thumbnail for Bust of Carlo Antonio del Pozzo
    The Bust of Carlo Antonio del Pozzo is a sculptural portrait by the Italian artist Gianlorenzo Bernini. It is in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh...
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    marble bust of Charles I. Pope Urban VIII sent the bust to Charles's queen Henrietta Maria in 1638 in the hope of encouraging a reconciliation of the Roman...
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    Saint Longinus (Bernini) (category Sculptures of men in Italy)
    of interior decoration in St. Peter's but he was responsible for the creation of several works, including Saint Longinus. Saint Longinus was one of four...
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    Blessed Ludovica Albertoni (category Sculptures of women in Italy)
    Bernini's protégé Baciccio. Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1647–52) in the Cornaro Chapel Antonio Giorgetti's Saint Sebastian (c. 1672) in San Sebastiano...
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  • Thumbnail for Bust of King Charles I (Bernini)
    The Bust of Charles I was a sculptural bust produced by the Italian artist Gianlorenzo Bernini which according to one historian, "set the visual conventions...
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    national collection of older paintings in Rome. Around 1549 Cardinal Alessandro Sforza came into possession of the garden/vineyard of Cardinal Rodolfo Pio...
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  • Thumbnail for Fontana della Barcaccia
    Barcaccia (Italian: [barˈkattʃa]; "Fountain of the Boat") is a Baroque-style fountain found at the foot of the Spanish Steps in Rome's Piazza di Spagna...
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    Elephant and Obelisk (category Sculptures of elephants)
    Elephant and Obelisk is a statue of an elephant carrying an obelisk, designed by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It was unveiled in 1667 in the...
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    center of the square dominated by his family's brand-new palace. At its centre rises a larger than lifesize muscular Triton, a minor sea god of ancient...
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    the curved pediment of the edicule frame to the high altar; this time he is represented by a white stucco sculpture carved by Antonio Raggi. He is shown...
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    Santa Bibiana (category Churches of Rome (rione Esquilino))
    by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who also produced a sculpture of the saint holding the palm leaf of martyrs. According to an ancient, not documented tradition...
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    Truth Unveiled by Time (Bernini) (category Sculptures of women in Italy)
    marble sculpture by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, one of the foremost sculptors of the Italian Baroque. Executed between 1645 and 1652, Bernini...
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    his family from burning Troy. The life-sized group shows three generations of Aeneas' family. The young man is Aeneas, who carries an older man—his father...
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    to Paris to construct an equestrian statue and a portrait bust, as well as a new façade of the Louvre Palace. The day after his arrival in Paris on June...
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    Medusa (Bernini) (category Busts by Gian Lorenzo Bernini)
    The bust was gradually cleaned and its surface was restored. Medusa was shown at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow in May, 2011, as part of the...
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  • Thumbnail for Bust of Monsignor Pedro de Foix Montoya
    Bust of Monsignor Pedro de Foix Montoya is a sculpted portrait by the Italian artist Gianlorenzo Bernini. Executed in 1621 and 1622, it sits within a...
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