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Galleria Borghese, Rome 1623 Painting Oil on canvas 38 cm × 30 cm (15 in × 11.8 in) NA [19] David: Galleria Borghese, Rome 1623–1624 Sculpture Marble Height 170 cm (67 in) 17 [20] Apollo and Daphne: Galleria Borghese, Rome 1622–1625 Sculpture Marble Height 243 cm (96 in) 18 [21] Bust of Antonio Cepparelli: San Giovanni dei Fiorentini ...
St. Peter's Baldachin (Italian: Baldacchino di San Pietro, L'Altare di Bernini) is a large Baroque sculpted bronze canopy, technically called a ciborium or baldachin, over the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the city-state and papal enclave surrounded by Rome, Italy. The baldachin is at the center of the crossing, and ...
From then on, Bernini's work and artistic vision would be placed at the symbolic heart of Rome. Bernini's artistic pre-eminence under Urban VIII (and later under Alexander VII) meant he was able to secure the most important commissions in the Rome of his day, namely, the various massive embellishment projects of the newly finished St. Peter's ...
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 ...
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers) is a fountain in the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy.It was designed in 1651 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for Pope Innocent X whose family palace, the Palazzo Pamphili, faced onto the piazza as did the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone of which Innocent was the sponsor.
See also entry titled Bernini's Cornaro chapel found in the Baroque section. Death of the Blessed Ludovica Albertoni (1671–1674)—San Francesco a Ripa, Rome. Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence (1614–15) [21] Truth Unveiled by Time (1646–1652) – Galleria Borghese, Rome. [22]
The Palazzo di Propaganda Fide (in English: Palace of the Propagation of the Faith) is a palace located in Rome, designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, then Francesco Borromini. Since 1626, it has housed the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and since 1929 is an extraterritorial property of the Holy See. The complex includes a dormitory ...
The Statue of King Philip IV of Spain is a bronze sculpture by Italian artists Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Girolamo Lucenti depicting Philip IV of Spain, located in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, in Rome. Bernini developed the initial design and oversaw the project, while Lucenti created the modello and cast the bronze, but "the statue is ...