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  2. List of works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of works of sculpture, architecture, and painting by the Italian Baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The numbering follows Rudolph Wittkower's Catalogue, published in 1966 in Gian Lorenzo Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroque. [1] [2] [3]

  3. Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Wikipedia

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    Among the influential 18th- and 19th-century figures who despised Bernini's art was also and most prominently Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–68), considered by many the father of the modern discipline of art history. For the neo-classicist Winkelmann, the one true, laudable "high style" of art was characterized by noble simplicity joined ...

  4. File:Bernini, Gianlorenzo - Self-portrait c1675-1680 - Royal ...

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    The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: Public domain Public domain false false This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer .

  5. Sleeping Hermaphroditus - Wikipedia

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    In 1620, Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini sculpted the mattress upon which the statue now lies. The form is partly derived from ancient portrayals of Venus and other female nudes, and partly from contemporaneous feminised Hellenistic portrayals of Dionysus/Bacchus .

  6. Habakkuk and the Angel (Bernini) - Wikipedia

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    Habakkuk and the Angel is a sculpture created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini c. 1656–61. Standing in a niche in the Chigi Chapel in the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome, it shows the Prophet Habakkuk with the angel of God. It forms a part of a larger composition with the sculpture of Daniel and the Lion diagonally opposite.

  7. The Goat Amalthea with the Infant Jupiter and a Faun

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    According to Filippo Baldinucci, even before Pietro Bernini moved his family from Naples to Rome, eight-year-old Gian Lorenzo created a "small marble head of a child that was the marvel of everyone". [4] Throughout his teenage years, he produced numerous images containing putti, chubby male

  8. Vatican unveils plans for restoring Bernini's canopy in St ...

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    The Vatican on Thursday unveiled plans for a yearlong restoration of the monumental baldacchino, or canopy, over the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica, pledging to complete the work on Bernini ...

  9. Bust of Giovanni Battista Santoni - Wikipedia

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    The Bust of Giovanni Battisti Santoni is a sculptural portrait by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.Believed to be one of the artist's earliest works, the bust forms part of a tomb for Santoni, who was majordomo to Pope Sixtus V from 1590 to 1592.