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Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (December 7, 1598 – November 28, 1680) was a pre-eminent Baroque sculptor and architect of 17th century Rome, best-known for his marble sculptures the Ecstasy of St Theresa[1], The Rape of Proserpina[2] and the Beata Ludovica Albertoni[3].

Selected works

Sculpture

• Martyrdom of St. Lawrence (1614-1615) - Marble, 66 x 108 cm, Contini Bonacossi Collection, Florence
• The Goat Amalthea with the Infant Jupiter and a Faun (1615) - Marble, Galleria Borghese, Rome
• St. Sebastian (c. 1617) - Marble, Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
• A Faun Teased by Children (1616-1617) - Marble, height 132,1 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius (1618-1619) - Marble, height 220 cm, Galleria Borghese, Rome
• Damned Soul (1619) - Palazzo di Spagna, Rome
• Blessed Soul (1619) - Palazzo di Spagna, Rome
• Apollo and Daphne (1622-1625) - Marble, height 243 cm, Galleria Borghese, Rome
• St. Peter's Baldachin (1624) - Bronze, partly gilt, Basilica di San Pietro, Vatican City
• Charity with Four Children (1627-1628) - Terracotta, height 39 cm, Museo Sacro, Musei Vaticani, Vatican
• David (1623-1624) - Marble, height 170 cm, Galleria Borghese, Rome
• Fontana della Barcaccia (1627-1628) - Marble, Piazza di Spagna, Rome
• Bust of Monsignor Pedro de Foix Montoya (c. 1621) - Marble, life-size, Santa Maria di Monserrato, Rome
• Neptune and Triton (1620) - Marble, height 182,2 cm, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
• The Rape of Proserpina (1621-1622) - Marble, height 295 cm, Galleria Borghese, Rome
• Fontana del Tritone (1624-1643) - Travertine, over life-size, Piazza Barberini, Rome
• Tomb of Pope Urban VIII (1627-1647) - Golden bronze and marble, figures larger than life-size, Basilica di San Pietro, Vatican City
• Bust of Thomas Baker (1638) - Marble, height 81,6 cm, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
• Bust of Costanza Bonarelli (c. 1635) - Marble, height 70 cm, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
• Charity with Two Children (1634) - Terracotta, height 41.6 cm, Museo Sacro, Musei Vaticani, Vatican City
• Saint Longinus (1631-1638) - Marble, height 450 cm, Basilica di San Pietro, Vatican City
• Bust of Scipione Borghese (1632) - Marble, height 78 cm, Galleria Borghese, Rome
• Bust of Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1632) - Marble, Basilica di San Pietro, Vatican City
• Bust of Pope Urban VIII (1632-1633) - Bronze, height 100 cm, Museo Sacro, Musei Vaticani, Vatican City
• Bust of Cardinal Armand de Richelieu (1640-1641) - Marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris
• Memorial to Maria Raggi (1643) - Gilt bronze and coloured marble, Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome
• Truth (1645-1652) - Marble, height 280 cm, Galleria Borghese, Rome
• Bust of Pope Leo X (1647) Palazzo Doria Pamphilij, Rome
• Ecstasy of St Theresa (1647-1652) - Marble, Cappella Cornaro, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome
• Loggia of the Founders (1647-1652) Marble, Cappella Cornaro, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome</small>
• Bust of Urban VIII - Marble, Basilica di San Pietro, Vatican City
• Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (1648-1651) - Travertine and marble, Piazza Navona, Rome
• Corpus (sculpture) (1650) - Bronze, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada.
• Daniel and the Lion (1650) - Marble, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome
• Francesco I d'Este (1650-1651) - Marble, height 107 cm, Galleria Estense, Modena
• Fountain of the Moor (1653-1654) - Marble, Piazza Navona, Rome
• Constantine (1654-1670) - Marble, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican City
• Daniel and the Lion (1655) - Terracotta, height 41.6 cm, Museo Sacro, Musei Vaticani, Vatican City
• Habakkuk and the Angel (1655) - Terracotta, height 52 cm, Museo Sacro, Musei Vaticani, Vatican City
• Altar Cross (1657-1661) - Gilt bronze corpus on bronze cross, height: corpus 43 cm, cross 185 cm, Treasury of San Pietro, Vatican City
• Throne of Saint Peter (1657-1666) - Marble, bronze, white and golden stucco, Basilica di San Pietro, Rome
• Statue of Saint Augustine (1657-1666) - Bronze, Basilica di San Pietro, Vatican City
• Constantine (1663-1670) - Marble with painted stucco drapery, Scala Regia, Vatican Palace, Rome
• Standing Angel with Scroll (1667-1668) - Clay, terracotta, height: 29,2 cm, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge
• Angel with the Crown of Thorns (1667-1669) - Marble, over life-size, Sant'Andrea delle Fratte, Rome
• Angel with the Superscription (1667-1669) - Marble, over life-size, Sant'Andrea delle Fratte, Rome
• Elephant of Minerva (1667-1669) - Marble, Piazza di Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome
• Bust of Gabriele Fonseca (1668-1675) - Marble, over life-size, San Lorenzo in Lucina, Rome
• Equestrian Statue of King Louis XIV (1669-1670) - Terracotta, height 76 cm, Galleria Borghese, Rome
• Bust of Louis XIV (1665) - Marble, height 80 cm, Musée National de Versailles, Versailles
• Herm of St. Stephen, King of Hungary - Bronze, Cathedral Treasury, Zagreb
• Saint Jerome (1661-1663) - Marble, height 180 cm, Cappella Chigi, Duomo, Siena
• Tomb of Pope Alexander VII (1671-1678) - Marble and gilded bronze, over life-size, Basilica di San Pietro, Vatican City
• Blessed Ludovica Albertoni (1671-1674) - Marble, Cappella Altieri-Albertoni, San Francesco a Ripa, Rome

Paintings

Bernini's activity as a painter was a sideline which he did mainly in his youth. Despite this his work reveals a sure and brilliant hand, free from any trace of pedantry. He studied in Rome under his father, Pietro, and soon proved a precocious infant prodigy. His work was immediately sought after by major collectors.

• Saint Andrew and Saint Thomas (c. 1627) - Oil on canvas, 59 x 76 cm, National Gallery, London
• Portrait of a Boy (c. 1638) - Oil on canvas, Galleria Borghese, Rome
• Self-Portrait as a Young Man (c. 1623) - Oil on canvas, Galleria Borghese, Rome
• Self-Portrait as a Mature Man (1630-1635) - Oil on canvas, Galleria Borghese, Rome

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