Pietro Bernini (6 May 1562 – 29 August 1629) was an Italian sculptor. He was the father of one of the most famous artists of Baroque, Gian Lorenzo Bernini...
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Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (UK: /bɛərˈniːni/, US: /bərˈ-/; Italian: [ˈdʒan loˈrɛntso berˈniːni]; Italian Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 1598 –...
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Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius (category Sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the Borghese Collection)
statue was made by Bernini when he was twenty years old, although it is often thought that he had help from his father, Pietro Bernini [2]. Through his...
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St. Peter's Square (redirect from Piazza San Pietro)
ancient Egyptian obelisk erected at the current site in 1586. Gian Lorenzo Bernini designed the square almost 100 years later, including the massive Doric...
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The Rape of Proserpina (redirect from Rape of Proserpine (Bernini))
artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, executed between 1621 and 1622, when Bernini's career was in its early stage. The group, finished when Bernini was just 23 years...
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Daphne is a life-sized marble sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, which was executed between 1622 and 1625. It is regarded as one of the...
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marble sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The sculpture was one of many commissions to decorate the villa of Bernini's patron Cardinal Scipione Borghese...
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rugby union player Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), Italian sculptor and architect, son of Pietro Bernini Giorgio Bernini (1928–2020), Italian jurist, academic...
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Luigi Bernini (1612, Rome - 22 December 1681, Rome) was an Italian engineer, architect, and sculptor. The son of Pietro Bernini and his wife Angelica...
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St. Peter's Baldachin (redirect from Bernini's baldachin)
St. Peter's Baldachin (Italian: Baldacchino di San Pietro, L'Altare di Bernini) is a large Baroque sculpted bronze canopy, technically called a ciborium...
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Baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The numbering follows Rudolph Wittkower's Catalogue, published in 1966 in Gian Lorenzo Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman...
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Rome's Piazza di Spagna (Spanish Square). Pope Urban VIII commissioned Pietro Bernini in 1623 to build the fountain as part of a prior Papal project to erect...
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is enclosed in a sculpted gilt bronze casing designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and constructed between 1647 and 1653. In 2012, Pope Benedict XVI described...
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architect Pietro Bembo (1470–1547), Italian scholar, poet, literary theorist, member of the Knights Hospitaller and cardinal Pietro Bernini (1562–1629)...
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A Faun Teased by Children (category Sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini)
Children is a marble sculpture by Italian artists Gian Lorenzo Bernini and his father Pietro Bernini. It was executed in 1616 and 1617, when Gian Lorenzo was...
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to Pietro Bernini, father of a more famous son, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who is recently said to have collaborated on the decoration. The elder Bernini had...
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to the beginning of the Baroque period, sculpted by Pietro Bernini and his son Gian Lorenzo Bernini. At the right corner of the Spanish Steps rises the...
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the classical myth. It was executed by the Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Its precise date of creation is unknown, but it is likely to have been...
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designed and partially executed by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Bernini first discussed the project while in France in the mid-1660s, but it...
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Fontana del Moro (section Gian Lorenzo Bernini)
Porta in the 1570s with later contributions from Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the 1650s. Bernini sculpted a large terracotta model of the central figure, which...
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Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (category Sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini)
completed by a mature Bernini during the Pamphili papacy of Innocent X. When Innocent acceded to the papal throne, he shunned Bernini's artistic services;...
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Michelangelo Naccherino, a pupil of Michelangelo; also present are Pietro Bernini marble sculptures of St. Stephen and St. Lawrence.[citation needed]...
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Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680). He was the son of a Florentine sculptor, Pietro Bernini, who had been called to Rome by Pope Paul V. The young Bernini made...
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St. Peter's Basilica (redirect from Basilica di San Pietro)
towards the viewer in welcome. Bernini died in 1680 in his 82nd year. To the east of the basilica is the Piazza di San Pietro, (St. Peter's Square). The present...
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Boy with a Dragon (category Sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini)
strangling serpents sent to kill him. It was carved by Pietro Bernini and his son Gian Lorenzo Bernini for Maffeo Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII). In 1702...
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Saint Longinus is a sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Completed in 1638, the marble sculpture sits in the north-eastern niche in the...
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The Goat Amalthea with the Infant Jupiter and a Faun (category Sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the Borghese Collection)
Galleria Borghese in Rome. According to Filippo Baldinucci, even before Pietro Bernini moved his family from Naples to Rome, eight-year-old Gian Lorenzo created...
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Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, one of the foremost sculptors of the Italian Baroque. Executed between 1645 and 1652, Bernini intended to show Truth allegorically...
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ancient statues, furnishings and four herms perhaps by Pietro Bernini and Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The garden, as we see it today, is a twentieth-century...
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1585) August 18 – Vendela Skytte, Swedish noble (b. 1608) August 29 – Pietro Bernini, Italian sculptor (b. 1562) September 11 – Herman Hugo, Dutch Jesuit...
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