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The Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi is a monumental Baroque fountain located in the center of Rome's Piazza Navona. Designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and completed in 1651 for Pope Innocent X, it features personifications of four major rivers: the Nile, the Danube, the Ganges, and the Río de la Plata. Thes...
The Rape of Proserpina is a Baroque marble sculpture group created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini between 1621 and 1622. Commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, it is currently housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome. The large statue depicts the Roman myth of Pluto seizing Proserpina to take her to th...
David is a life-sized marble sculpture by the Italian Baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, carved between 1623 and 1624. Commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the artwork is housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome. Unlike earlier Renaissance depictions of the biblical hero, Bernini's David cap...
Apollo and Daphne is a life-sized Baroque marble sculpture created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in Rome between 1622 and 1625. Commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the piece is located in the Galleria Borghese and illustrates a narrative from Ovid's Metamorphoses. It captures the exact moment the...
The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa is a central sculptural group designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for the Cornaro Chapel in the Roman church of Santa Maria della Vittoria. Completed in 1652, the white marble sculpture depicts the 16th-century mystic Saint Teresa of Ávila as an angel pierces her heart with...
The Bust of Francesco I d'Este is a Baroque marble portrait completed by the Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini around 1650. The work depicts the Duke of Modena and is notable for its dramatic sense of movement and dynamic sweeping drapery. Bernini famously never met the Duke in person, relying i...
The Bust of Louis XIV is a marble portrait sculpted by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1665. Bernini created the work during a six-month visit to Paris at the invitation of King Louis XIV. The bust depicts the French monarch with a dramatic upward gaze, flowing locks of hair, and elaborat...
The Bust of Cardinal Scipione Borghese is a marble portrait sculpture created by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1632. Scipione Borghese was an influential Cardinal and patron of the arts in early 17th-century Rome. Bernini produced two versions of the bust after a structural flaw appeare...
The Bust of Costanza Bonarelli is a marble portrait sculpture carved by the Italian Baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini around 1636 to 1638. Depicting the wife of Bernini's assistant Matteo Bonarelli, with whom the sculptor had a well-documented romantic affair, the artwork is noted for its intimate...
Bust of Louis XIV is Bernini's 1665 marble portrait of the French king, a major Baroque state image made during the artist's Paris visit.
The Bust of Pope Urban VIII is a sculptural portrait created by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Bernini produced multiple versions of this marble bust of Pope Urban VIII, born Maffeo Barberini, roughly between 1623 and 1640. Urban VIII was Bernini's most significant patron, commissioning ma...
Piazza San Pietro is a large public square located in Vatican City, designed primarily by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Constructed during the 17th century, it’s notable for its expansive baroque design and ability to host significant crowds – over 300,000 people. The square serves as a central gathering pl...
Saint Longinus is Bernini's colossal marble statue for St Peter's Basilica, completed in 1638 for one of the crossing niches.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian sculptor and architect who played a defining role in the development of the Baroque style. Around 1621, he carved a marble bust of the Spanish cardinal Pedro de Foix Montoya, which is located in the church of Santa Maria di Monserrato in Rome. This work is notable...
The Bust of Cardinal Camillo Astalli is a marble portrait sculpture created by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini around 1650. Astalli was a relative of Pope Innocent X who was elevated to the rank of cardinal, and Bernini was commissioned to create the portrait shortly after this appointment....
Bust of Thomas Baker is a marble portrait sculpture created by the Italian Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini around 1638. It depicts the English merchant and royalist Thomas Baker, who sat for Bernini during a visit to Rome. The bust is carved in the lively, naturalistic style characteristic of...
The Minerveo Obelisk is a small ancient Egyptian granite obelisk standing in Piazza della Minerva in Rome, near the Pantheon. Pope Alexander VII commissioned Gian Lorenzo Bernini to design its supporting monument, which features a marble elephant carved by Ercole Ferrata and unveiled in 1667. The ob...
