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
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)
Apollo and Daphne (Bernini)
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Apollo and Daphne is a life-sized marble sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, which was executed between 1622 and 1625. It is regarded as one of the artistic marvels of the Baroque ag
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
…Borghese in Rome. To the art historian Rudolf Wittkower these four works—Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius (1619), The Rape of Proserpina (1621–22), Apollo and Daphne (1622–1625), and David (1623–24)—"inaugurated a new era in the history of European sculpture." It is a view repeated by other scholars, such as Howard…
Apollo and Daphne
Detail of the sculpture