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The Bust of Francesco Barberini is a marble sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. It was executed in 1623. It was commissioned by Pope Urban VIII, who was a nephew of Francesco Barberini, an apostolic protonotary. Francesco had died in 1600, so Bernini created the bust from ...
Not all viewers have found the Faun so indecorous: the Barberini Faun was reproduced on a Nymphenburg porcelain service in the 1830s. The statue was housed in the Palazzo Barberini, Rome, until it was sold in 1799 to the sculptor and restorer Vincenzo Pacetti; Pacetti offered it to various English and French clients, including Lucien Bonaparte.
The Rape of Proserpina (Italian: Ratto di Proserpina), more accurately translated as The Abduction of Proserpina, [1] is a large Baroque marble group sculpture by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, executed between 1621 and 1622, when Bernini's career was in its early stage.
Collection Principe Enrico Barberini. Early 1640s. Porphyry. Adapted from existing antique statue, largely by assistants. Private Collection (Barberini Family). 1658. Bronze; In 2020, the Galleria Borghese began a fund raising campaign to purchase the last bust on this list from the Barberini family. [2]
Memorial to Carlo Barberini: Santa Maria in Ara Coeli, Rome 1630 Sculpture Marble 26 [32] Statue of Carlo Barberini: Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome 1630 Sculpture Marble Life-size 27 [33] Self-Portrait as a Mature Man (Bernini) [Wikidata] Uffizi, Florence 1630–1635 Painting Oil on canvas 62 cm × 46 cm (24.4 in × 18.1 in) NA [34] Saint Longinus
Fontana del Tritone (Triton Fountain) is a seventeenth-century fountain in Rome, by the Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini.Commissioned by his patron, Pope Urban VIII, the fountain is located in the Piazza Barberini, [1] near the entrance to the Palazzo Barberini (which now houses the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica) that Bernini helped to design and construct for the Barberini, Urban's ...
Bronze panel bearing an imitation of the central panel of the Barberini ivory (Byzantine and Christian Museum of Athens). The existence of these equestrian statues of Justinian at Constantinople suggests that the central theme of the Barberini ivory reprises a lost type popularised by these statues, rather than that it created a new type.
Bust of Francesco Barberini Two Angels in Sant'Agostino are two marble sculptures above the high altar of the Basilica of Sant'Agostino in Rome. They are listed as being by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the biography of Baldinucci, and there is also recorded evidence of Bernini having been paid for them.