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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. 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

  5. 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.

  6. 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 .

  7. Elephant and Obelisk - Wikipedia

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    Elephant and Obelisk is a statue of an elephant carrying an obelisk, designed by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It was unveiled in 1667 in the Piazza della Minerva in Rome , adjacent to the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva , where it stands today.

  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. Angel with the Crown of Thorns - Wikipedia

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    Angel with the Crown of Thorns is a statue by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Originally commissioned by Pope Clement IX for the Ponte Sant'Angelo project, the statue was replaced with a copy and the original was moved to Sant'Andrea delle Fratte in Rome, Italy. The statue was started in 1667 and completed in 1669. [1]