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    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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  • University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226538525. nationalgalleries (2019). "Portrait Bust of Monsignor Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo, Archbishop of Pisa (1547...
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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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    Nazionale del Bargello in Florence, Italy. Considered among the most personal of Bernini's works, the bust is of Costanza Piccolomini Bonarelli, the wife of Matteo...
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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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    onto the Via del Quirinale (formerly the Via Pia), as does Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane further down the road. Unlike San Carlo, Sant’Andrea...
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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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    "the maternal arms of Mother Church". A granite fountain constructed by Bernini in 1675 matches another fountain designed by Carlo Maderno in 1613. The...
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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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    ciborium, like most major basilicas in Rome, and Bernini's predecessor, Carlo Maderno, had produced a design, also with twisted Solomonic columns, less...
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    Xavier del Bac. University of Arizona Press. 20 September 2010. ISBN 978-0-8165-2840-0.; A Gift of Angels: The Art of Mission San Xavier del Bac (Southwest...
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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Palazzo Barberini (category Carlo Maderno buildings)
    frescoed ceilings at Sant'Ignazio (by Pozzo); or those at Villa Pisani at Stra, the throne room of the Royal Palace of Madrid, and the Ca' Rezzonico in Venice...
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    be distinguished from the nearby Fontana dei Tritoni (Fountain of the Tritons) by Carlo Francesco Bizzaccheri in Piazza Bocca della Verità which features...
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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 Louis XIV (Bernini)
    The Bust of Louis XIV is a marble portrait by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It was created in the year 1665 during Bernini's visit to Paris...
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  • Thumbnail for Two Busts of Cardinal Scipione Borghese
    Two Busts of Cardinal Scipione Borghese are marble portrait sculptures executed by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1632. Cardinal Scipione Borghese...
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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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    The Bust of the Saviour (Salvator Mundi) is the last sculpture created by baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who died from the after-effects of a stroke...
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    Truth Unveiled by Time (Bernini) (category Sculptures of women in Italy)
    the blame. What many fail to mention is that most of the blame lies with Carlo Maderno, the previous architect who built weak foundations for the monumental...
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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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    made two Busts of Pope Paul V. The first is currently in the Galleria Borghese in Rome. 1618 is the commonly accepted date for the portrait of the pope...
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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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    fairfield 2018. Europeana (2022). "Bust of Cardinal Roberto Bellarmino by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1621-1624 (Chiesa del Gesù, Roma)". Retrieved 18 April 2013...
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    The Church of the Gesù (Italian: Chiesa del Gesù, pronounced [ˈkjɛːza del dʒeˈzu]) is the mother church of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), a Catholic religious...
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    Saint Longinus (Bernini) (category Sculptures of men in Italy)
    by Pope Urban VIII, a great patron of Bernini. In 1627 Bernini replaced Carlo Maderno as the chief architect for St. Peter's Basilica and was given complete...
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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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