Alessandro Algardi
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Alessandro Algardi was an Italian high-Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome. In the latter decades of his life, he was, along with Francesco Borromini and Pietro da Cortona, one of the m
Anonymous portrait of Alessandro Algardi, 1654, Accademia di San Luca, Rome
Terracotta modello of Cardinal Paolo Emilio Zacchia, c. 1650
Tomb of Leo XI
Pope Innocent X, Capitoline Museums.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian sculptor, architect, painter and city planner. Bernini's creative abilities and mastery in a range of artistic arenas define him as a uomo universale or Renaissance
Alessandro Algardi
…almost exclusively in Rome. In the latter decades of his life, he was, along with Francesco Borromini and Pietro da Cortona, one of the major rivals of Gian Lorenzo Bernini in Rome. He is now most admired for his portrait busts that have great vivacity and dignity. Algardi was born in Bologna, where at a young age, he was…
Self-portrait of Bernini, c. 1623, Galleria Borghese, Rome
Portrait of Pietro Bernini, father of Gian Lorenzo
Bust of Pope Paul V (1621–1622) by Bernini
Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius (1619)