Gianlorenzo Bernini art links 

Gianlorenzo Bernini: Louis XIV on Horseback (detail)

Art Institute of Chicago
Putti Carrying the Cross

Gianlorenzo Bernini at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
3 works online

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
8 works by Bernini

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
4 works online by Bernini

Gianlorenzo Bernini at the Louvre Museum, Paris
St Jerome on his Knees before a Crucifix, drawing, 1665

Gianlorenzo Bernini at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Cardinal de Richelieu, marble, 1641

Louvre Museum Database, Paris

Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)  
Skip forward a few pages for about a dozen works on paper by Bernini

Gianlorenzo Bernini at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History  
3 works online

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

National Gallery, London, UK
Saints Andrew and Thomas

Gianlorenzo Bernini at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
3 works by Gianlorenzo Bernini

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
St Agnes

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa  
Maffeo Barberini, Pope Urban VIII

Gianlorenzo Bernini at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project

The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")

Vatican Museums, Vatican City
Sculptures from the Bernini room of the Pinacoteca

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
The Crucified Christ (Corpus)

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Pope Gregory XV

Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Compton Verney, Warwick, England
King Charles I

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
65 works by or related to the artist

Frick Collection, New York City
Head of an Angel, terracotta

Galleria Borghese, Rome
David
Apollo and Daphne
Pluto and Proserpina
Truth unveiled by Time

Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome (in Italian)  
Bust of Innocenzo X

Galleria G. Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro, Venice (in Italian)  
Rio della Plata

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
A Boy Singing, ca.1650, possibly by Bernini

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
2 works online

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York

Musei Capitolini, Rome
Statue of Pope Urban VIII, 1635-40

Musei Capitolini, Rome
Bust of Medusa, 1644-48

Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (in German)  

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Bust of Pope Clement X, ca.1676

National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Countess Matilda of Tuscany

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Countess Matilda of Tuscany

Palais Fesch Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ajaccio, France (in French)  

Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)  

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  
Esquisse pour le tombeau de la comtesse Mathilde de Canossa

State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy

Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"

The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)  

The Huntington Library, California

The Walters Art Museum, Maryland

Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK

Virtual Uffizi

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Art Fund for UK Museums

 

Christie's Past Sale Archive   NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive   NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 

Gianlorenzo Bernini in the Art Renewal Center

Gianlorenzo Bernini in the Artchive  

CGFA  

Web Gallery of Art  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (mostly in Italian)  

AICT: Art Images for College Teaching  
Detail images from David and Triton Fountain

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)

California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project  
4 works documented

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)

State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site

USC Annenberg School for Communication

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Culture and History of Venice

Great Buildings Online

Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation

Mistica info (in Italian)  
Estasi di Santa Teresa, 1647-52

The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)

 

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Gianlorenzo Bernini  
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)  

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"Bernini the Magnificent," article by Roderick Conway Morris

Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)  

PBS
"Fury of Creation"

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   search inside The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini, & the Rivalry That Transformed Rome search inside Bernini look inside Bernini look inside Bernini and the Art of Architecture look inside Masters of Art: Bernini look inside Bernini: Genius of the Baroque