Biography of gian lorenzo bernini

Bernini was the dominant artist of 17th-century Rome. Under successive popes he became virtual dictator of the arts. He was responsible for town planning schemes as well as for church buildings and interiors, including St Peter's in the Vatican.

Bernini was born in Naples in 1598, the son of a Florentine sculptor, Pietro Bernini. His precocious talent was manifested in a series of sculptures made for Cardinal Scipione Borghese. In Rome he designed and supervised projects that integrated architecture, painting and sculpture, such as the Cornaro chapel in S. Maria della Vittoria, which contains the statue of 'The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa'.

He was also the originator of the figurative Baroque fountains of Rome, such as the Four Rivers on the Piazza Navona. Bernini's colonnade in front of St Peter's transformed the approach to the church into a magnificent reception area for pilgrims to the city.

Bernini was not primarily a painter; his few pictures are mainly head studies and portraits. The 'Saints Andrew and Thomas' in this Collection shows some of the animation later realised in his sculpture. The work of Caravaggio influenced his painting style, and he was also an admirer of Rubens and Poussin.

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  Gian Lorenzo Bernini

  Italian sculptor and architect (1598–1680)

  "Bernini" redirects here. For other uses, see Bernini (disambiguation).

  Gian Lorenzo Bernini
  Self-portrait of Bernini, c. 1623, Galleria Borghese, Rome
  Born	Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-12-07)7 December 1598 Naples, Kingdom of Naples
  Died	28 November 1680(1680-11-28) (aged 81) Rome, Papal States
  Known for	Sculpture, painting, architecture
  Notable work	David, Apollo and Daphne, The Rape of Proserpina, Fontana del Tritone
  Movement	Baroque style
  Patron(s)	CardinalScipione Borghese

  Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (, ; Italian:[ˈdʒanloˈrɛntsoberˈniːni]; Italian Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 1598 – 28 November 1680) was an Italian sculptor and architect. While a major figure in the world of architecture, he was more prominently the leading sculptor of his age, credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture.

  As one scholar has commented, "What Shakespeare is to drama, Bernini may be to sculpture: the first pan-European sculptor whose name is instantaneously identifiable with a particular manner and vision, and whose influence was inordinately powerful ..."^[1] In addition, he was a painter (mostly small

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