Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Bernini, Giovanni Lorenzo
Bernini, Gianlorenzo

Roman, 1598 - 1680

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Italian sculptor and architect (1598–1680)

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Statue of the Ganges River in the Grand Fountain of the Piazza Navona [plate IC]

Francesco Faraone Aquila, Gian Lorenzo Bernini · 1704-1742 · etching with engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2015.142.2.2.39

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Statue of Saint Bibiana [plate CLX]

Nicolas Dorigny, Gian Lorenzo Bernini · 1704-1742 · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2015.142.2.2.100

This free-standing, white marble sculpture shows the head, shoulders, and upper chest of a balding, bearded man. In this photograph, his body faces us and he looks straight ahead. Bushy eyebrows arch low over deeply set eyes, and his forehead hollows inward at his temples. He has high cheekbones and the skin of his cheeks draws slightly in. His thin lips are set in a straight line within a full beard. His high-necked robe falls slightly open over his chest and is cut also away over the shoulders to show the crinkled fabric of the garment beneath. The bottom edge of the sculpture curves upward in a very shallow U across the bottom, and is supported by a square pedestal foot decorated with scroll designs. The background behind the bust lightens from charcoal gray along the top edge to pale gray across the bottom, and the sculpture casts a shadow behind its base.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Monsignor Francesco Barberini, c. 1623, marble, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.102

Monsignor Francesco Barberini

Gian Lorenzo Bernini · c. 1623 · marble ·  Accession ID  1961.9.102

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Portrait of a Young Man, c. 1615, black and red chalk heightened with white chalk, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1971.66.1

Portrait of a Young Man

Gian Lorenzo Bernini · c. 1615 · black and red chalk heightened with white chalk ·  Accession ID  1971.66.1