Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (, , ; Italian Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 159828 November 1680) was an Italian sculptor and architect. While a major figure in the world of architecture, he was more prominently the leading sculptor of his age, credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture. As one scholar has commented, "What Shakespeare is to drama, Bernini may be to sculpture: the first pan-European sculptor whose name is instantaneously identifiable with a particular manner and vision, and whose influence was inordinately powerful ..." In addition, he was a painter (mostly small canvases in oil) and a man of the theatre: he wrote, directed and acted in plays (mostly Carnival satires), for which he designed stage sets and theatrical machinery. He produced designs as well for a wide variety of decorative art objects including lamps, tables, mirrors, and even coaches.As an architect and city planner, he designed secular buildings, churches, chapels, and public squares, as well as massive works combining both architecture and sculpture, especially elaborate public fountains and funerary monuments and a whole series of temporary structures (in stucco and wood) for funerals and festivals. His broad technical versatility, boundless compositional inventiveness and sheer skill in manipulating marble ensured that he would be considered a worthy successor of Michelangelo, far outshining other sculptors of his generation. His talent extended beyond the confines of sculpture to a consideration of the setting in which it would be situated; his ability to synthesize sculpture, painting, and architecture into a coherent conceptual and visual whole has been termed by the late art historian Irving Lavin the "unity of the visual arts". Provided by Wikipedia
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by Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680
Published 1993
Published 1993
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by Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680
Published 1970
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by Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680
Published 1944
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by Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680
Published 1977
Published 1977
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by Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680
Published 1962
Published 1962
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by Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680
Published 1994
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by Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680
Published 1985
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by Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680
Published 1925
Published 1925
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by Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680
Published 1998
Published 1998
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by Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680
Published 1982
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by Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680
Published 2004
Published 2004
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by Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680
Published 1938
Published 1938
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by Lavin, Irving, 1927-
Published 1981
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by Lavin, Irving, 1927-2019
Published 1981
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by Mezzatesta, Michael P.
Published 1982
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by Nava Cellini, Antonia, 1909-
Published 1966
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by McPhee, Sarah, 1960-
Published 2012
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by Borsi, Franco
Published 1986
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by Bernini, Domenico, 1657-1723
Published 2011
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by Marder, Tod A.
Published 1998
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