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Bernini Gian Lorenzo

20 works documented in the Bruno Balestrini archive.

Angel Holding a Scroll, Bernini Gian Lorenzo17th c.
Angel Holding a Scroll
Bernini Gian Lorenzo — Rome, Ponte Sant'Angelo
Marble, height cm 275, 1667-1669.
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Apollo and Daphne, Bernini Gian Lorenzo17th c.
Apollo and Daphne
Bernini Gian Lorenzo — Rome, Galleria Borghese
Marble, height cm 243, 1622-1625.
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Apollo and Daphne, Bernini Gian Lorenzo17th c.
Apollo and Daphne
Bernini Gian Lorenzo — Rome, Galleria Borghese
Marble, detail, 1622/25. This work translates into an image the fable from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'. The statuary group, like the David, was commissioned by the greatest collector of antiquities of the time, Cardinal Borghese.
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Costanza Buonarelli, Bernini Gian Lorenzo17th c.
Costanza Buonarelli
Bernini Gian Lorenzo — Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello
Marble, detail, 1635.
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David, Bernini Gian Lorenzo17th c.
David
Bernini Gian Lorenzo — Rome, Galleria Borghese
Description: Marble, height cm 170. Executed in 1623-1624.
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David, Bernini Gian Lorenzo17th c.
David
Bernini Gian Lorenzo — Rome, Galleria Borghese
Description: Marble, detail, height cm 170. Executed in 1623-1624.
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Aeneas Fleeing Troy, Bernini Gian Lorenzo17th c.
Aeneas Fleeing Troy
Bernini Gian Lorenzo — Rome, Galleria Borghese
Marble, height cm 220, 1618-1619.
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Fountain of the Four Rivers, Bernini Gian Lorenzo17th c.
Fountain of the Four Rivers
Bernini Gian Lorenzo — Rome, Piazza Navona
Marble, detail, 1648-1651.
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Triton Fountain, Bernini Gian Lorenzo17th c.
Triton Fountain
Bernini Gian Lorenzo — Rome, Piazza Barberini, Triton Fountain
Marble, detail. The fountain was made between 1612 and the first half of 1613.
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Francesco I d'Este, Bernini Gian Lorenzo17th c.
Francesco I d'Este
Bernini Gian Lorenzo — Modena, Galleria Estense
Marble, height cm 100.
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Cardinal Scipione Borghese, Bernini Gian Lorenzo17th c.
Cardinal Scipione Borghese
Bernini Gian Lorenzo — Rome, Galleria Borghese
Marble, detail.
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Innocent X, Bernini Gian Lorenzo17th c.
Innocent X
Bernini Gian Lorenzo — Rome, Galleria Doria Pamphili
Marble, height cm 71, 1650.
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The Ecstasy of St. Teresa, Bernini Gian Lorenzo17th c.
The Ecstasy of St. Teresa
Bernini Gian Lorenzo — Rome, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Cappella Cornaro
Marble and bronze, detail. Made between 1647 and 1652.
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The Blessed Ludovica Albertoni, Bernini Gian Lorenzo17th c.
The Blessed Ludovica Albertoni
Bernini Gian Lorenzo — Rome, San Francesco a Ripa
Marble, detail, 1674.
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The Blessed Ludovica Albertoni, Bernini Gian Lorenzo17th c.
The Blessed Ludovica Albertoni
Bernini Gian Lorenzo — Rome, San Francesco a Ripa
Marble, length cm 188.
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Truth Unveiled, Bernini Gian Lorenzo17th c.
Truth Unveiled
Bernini Gian Lorenzo — Rome, Galleria Borghese
Marble, height cm 215, 1646-1652.
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Funerary Monument of Urban VIII, Bernini Gian Lorenzo17th c.
Funerary Monument of Urban VIII
Bernini Gian Lorenzo — Rome, Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano
Bronze and polychrome marble, height cm 360, 1628-1647. Urban VIII (elected Pope in 1623, died in 1644) commissioned Bernini as early as 1628 to make his tomb, to be placed in the right-hand niche of the apse of St. Peter's.
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Pluto and Proserpina, Bernini Gian Lorenzo17th c.
Pluto and Proserpina
Bernini Gian Lorenzo — Rome, Galleria Borghese
Marble, height cm 220, carved from 1621 to 1622 for Cardinal Scipione Borghese.
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Pluto and Proserpina, Bernini Gian Lorenzo17th c.
Pluto and Proserpina
Bernini Gian Lorenzo — Rome, Galleria Borghese
Marble, height cm 220, carved from 1621 to 1622 for Cardinal Scipione Borghese.
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Saint Bibiana, Bernini Gian Lorenzo17th c.
Saint Bibiana
Bernini Gian Lorenzo — Rome, Saint Bibiana
Marble, height cm. 240, 1626.
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