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Saint Longinus is a sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Completed in 1638, the marble sculpture sits in the north-eastern niche in the crossing of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. [1] It is over four meters high and was commissioned by Pope Urban VIII, a great patron of Bernini.
Longinus was not originally a saint in Christian tradition. An early tradition, found in a sixth- or seventh-century pseudepigraphal " Letter of Herod to Pilate ", claims that Longinus suffered for having pierced Jesus, and that he was condemned to a cave where every night a lion came and mauled him until dawn, after which his body healed back ...
Saint Longinus: St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City 1631–1638 Sculpture Marble Height 440 cm (174 in) 28 [35] Balconies in the Pillars of the Dome of St. Peter's Basilica: St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City 1633–1640 Sculpture Marble 29 [36] Tomb of Pope Urban VIII: St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City 1627–1647 Sculpture Golden bronze and ...
Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (UK: / b ɛər ˈ n iː n i /, US: / b ər ˈ-/; Italian: [ˈdʒan loˈrɛntso berˈniːni]; Italian Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 1598 – 28 November 1680) was an Italian sculptor and architect.
Longinus (Greek: Λογγῖνος; fl. 451–457) was the hegumenos (superior or abbot) of the Enaton, a monastic community outside Alexandria in Roman Egypt. He is the subject of a Sahidic Coptic hagiography , the Life of Saints Longinus and Lucius the Ascetics , and a Sahidic homily , In Honour of Longinus , by Bishop Basil of Oxyrhynchus .
Neptune and Triton is an early sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It is housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum of London and was executed c. 1622–1623. Carved from marble , it stands 182.2 cm (71.7 in) in height.
Lorenzo Leonbruno was adopted by the Mantuan court painter Giovanni Luca de' Liombini, and was raised as Liombini's own son. [4] Although there remains little extant documentation on his early life and artistic training, some of Leonbruno's early training is attributed to the workshop of Andrea Mantegna, who was a highly distinguished court painter for Lodovico Gonzaga and the Gonzaga family.
Saint Veronica, Rome, St. Peter's Basilica. Francesco Mochi (29 July 1580 Montevarchi – 6 February 1654 Rome) was an Italian early-Baroque sculptor active mostly in Rome, Piacenza and Orvieto. His dramatic early works in Orvieto are now often regarded as the first truly Baroque sculptures. [1]