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Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian sculptor , b. 1598, Napoli, d. 1680, Roma
,Italian architect and artist credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture. He began his career working for his father, a sculptor. Among his early sculptures are Apollo and Daphne (1622 -C 24) and an active David (1623 -C 24). Under the patronage of Urban VIII, the first of eight popes he was to serve, he created the baldachin over the tomb of St. Peter in Rome. Bernini's architectural duties increased after 1629, when he was appointed architect of St. Peter's Basilica and the Palazzo Barberini. His works often represent a fusion of architecture and sculpture, as in the Cornaro Chapel, in Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, with its celebrated theatrical sculpture, The Ecstasy of St. Teresa (1645 C 52). His greatest architectural achievement is the colonnade enclosing the piazza before St. Peter's.
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Painting ID:: 29990
Head of a Young Man
mk67
Oil on canvas
24 13/16x24 3/8in
Uffizi,Gallery
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Painting ID:: 32245
Saint Andrew and Saint Thomas
c. 1627
Oil on canvas, 59 x 76 cm
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Painting ID:: 51190
David with the Head of Goliath
1625
Oil on canvas,
75 x 65,5 cm
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Painting ID:: 51197
Self-Portrait as a Young Man
c. 1623
Oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 51199
Pope Urban VIII
1632
Oil on canvas,
67 x 50 cm
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian sculptor , b. 1598, Napoli, d. 1680, Roma
,Italian architect and artist credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture. He began his career working for his father, a sculptor. Among his early sculptures are Apollo and Daphne (1622 -C 24) and an active David (1623 -C 24). Under the patronage of Urban VIII, the first of eight popes he was to serve, he created the baldachin over the tomb of St. Peter in Rome. Bernini's architectural duties increased after 1629, when he was appointed architect of St. Peter's Basilica and the Palazzo Barberini. His works often represent a fusion of architecture and sculpture, as in the Cornaro Chapel, in Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, with its celebrated theatrical sculpture, The Ecstasy of St. Teresa (1645 C 52). His greatest architectural achievement is the colonnade enclosing the piazza before St. Peter's.
. Related Artists to Gian Lorenzo Bernini: | Adriaen van de Venne | Bernardo Lopez | Ludolf de Jongh | Charles Leickert | William Morris Prints |
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