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Bernini's Apostles Andrew and Thomas in London's National Gallery is the sole canvas by the artist whose attribution, approximate date of execution (c. 1625) and provenance (the Barberini Collection, Rome) are securely known. [72]
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.
Truth Unveiled by Time is a marble sculpture by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, one of the foremost sculptors of the Italian Baroque.Executed between 1645 and 1652, Bernini intended to show Truth allegorically as a naked young woman being unveiled by a figure of Time above her, but the figure of Time was never executed.
Medusa is a marble sculpture of the eponymous character from the classical myth.It was executed by the Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini.Its precise date of creation is unknown, but it is likely to have been executed in the 1640s.
The tomb was to be placed in a niche containing a door of the south transept. Bernini cleverly incorporated Death and the marble shroud hanging slightly over the door since it could not be moved. [5] [9] Bernini began working on a design and model of the whole tomb and on October 7, 1672, and was paid one thousand scudi for the start of his work.
In both, Bernini nestled the head low into the cope collar creating a triangular silhouette. [2] Bernini was well rewarded for his efforts in creating the Bust of Pope Gregory XV. On 30 June 1621, [4] at the age of twenty-two, Bernini was awarded a papal knighthood by the pope—the Supreme Order of Christ—and an accompanying lifetime salary. [5]
According to Bernini's biographer, Filippo Baldinucci, the sculpture was completed when Bernini was 15 years old, implying that it was finished in the year 1614. [1] Other historians have dated the sculpture between 1615 and 1618. A date of 1617 seems most likely. [2] It is less than life-size in dimensions, measuring 108 by 66 cm.
There is considerable confusion over the origins of the statue. According to Rudolf Wittkower, there were three versions in production during 1676.One was intended for the pope's nephew Cardinal Paluzzo Altieri, another to be placed the refectory of the church of Santa Trinità dei Convalescenti, and a third for the library of the Palazzo Altieri. [1]