The bust of Thomas Baker is a 1638 marble portrait sculpture created by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, with much of the bust undertaken by a...
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(28 in), Bargello, Florence Bust of Thomas Baker (1638) Marble, height 82 cm (32 in), Victoria and Albert Museum, London Bust of Cardinal Richelieu (1640–41)...
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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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St. Peter's Baldachin (redirect from Baldacchino of St Peter's)
scale of the building and the human scale of the people officiating at the religious ceremonies at the papal altar beneath its canopy. The form of the structure...
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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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The Bust of Costanza Bonarelli is a marble sculpture created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini during the 1630's. The piece is now in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello...
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doi:10.2307/3050112. Wilkins, Ann Thomas. "Bernini and Ovid: Expanding the Concept of Metamorphosis". International Journal of the Classical Tradition 6, no...
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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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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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Medusa (Bernini) (category Busts by Gian Lorenzo Bernini)
Gioia, 2006 "Restoration of the Bust of Medusa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini". Musei Capitolini. 2017. Retrieved June 1, 2019. Baker, Kenneth (November 26, 2011)...
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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 the square...
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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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Teresa of Jesus. Chapter XXIX; Part 17. Wittkower, Rudolf (1980). Art and Architecture in Italy 1600–1750, Pelican History of Art. p. 160. Greer, Thomas H...
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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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Sant'Andrea al Quirinale (redirect from Church of Saint Andrew's at the Quirinal)
The Church of Saint Andrew on the Quirinal (Italian: Sant'Andrea al Quirinale, Latin: S. Andreae in Quirinali) is a Roman Catholic titular church in Rome...
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The Tomb of Pope Alexander VII is a sculptural monument designed and partially executed by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It is located in the...
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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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Charles I in Three Positions (redirect from Triple portrait of Charles I)
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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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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as did the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone of which Innocent was the sponsor. The base of the fountain is a basin from the centre of which travertine rocks...
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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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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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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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Fontana del Tritone, Rome (redirect from Fountain of the Triton)
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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August 1629) was an Italian sculptor. He was the father of one of the most famous artists of Baroque, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, as well as the sculptor-architect...
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The Statue of King Philip IV of Spain is a bronze sculpture by Italian artists Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Girolamo Lucenti depicting Philip IV of Spain, located...
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Victoria and Albert Museum (redirect from National Museum of Applied Arts)
Bernini's bust of Thomas Baker, from the 1630s 17th-century tapestries from the Sheldon and Mortlake Tapestry Works The wood relief of The Stoning of St Stephen...
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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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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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