|
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
Italian Baroque sculptor, painter and architect.1598-1680
was a pre-eminent Baroque sculptor and architect of 17th Century Rome. Bernini was born in Naples to a Mannerist sculptor, Pietro Bernini, originally from Florence. At the age of seven he accompanied his father to Rome, where his father was involved in several high profile projects. There as a boy, his skill was soon noticed by the painter Annibale Carracci and by Pope Paul V, and Bernini gained the patronage exclusively under Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the pope's nephew. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
Self-Portrait as a Youth
mk83
c.1623
oil on canvas
39x31cm
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
The Baldacchino
1624 Bronze, partly gilt Basilica di San Pietro
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 | |
|
|
|
|
| Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
|
| Italian Baroque sculptor, painter and architect.1598-1680
was a pre-eminent Baroque sculptor and architect of 17th Century Rome. Bernini was born in Naples to a Mannerist sculptor, Pietro Bernini, originally from Florence. At the age of seven he accompanied his father to Rome, where his father was involved in several high profile projects. There as a boy, his skill was soon noticed by the painter Annibale Carracci and by Pope Paul V, and Bernini gained the patronage exclusively under Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the pope's nephew.
|
|
|
|
|
