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Gianlorenzo Bernini

[Italian Baroque Era Sculptor and Painter, 1598-1680]

• Also known as:  Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
Le Bernin
• Relationships: Son of Pietro Bernini.
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Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Gianlorenzo Bernini at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

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

Gianlorenzo Bernini in the Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French)

Gianlorenzo Bernini at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, ca.1616-17 (Zoom)

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City  
3 works online

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

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 National Gallery, London, UK
Saints Andrew and Thomas

The Royal Collection, London, UK
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3 drawings online

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

Art Fund for UK Museums

Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York

Château de Versailles, France
Louis XIV, 1665

Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Head of Proserpina

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)  
Busto di Innocenzo X

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

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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

Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, France

Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (in German)  

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

National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Self-Portrait, ca.1615-19

Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)  

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

The Walters Art Museum, Maryland
The Risen Christ

Virtual Uffizi

 
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Pictures from Image Archives:
Gianlorenzo Bernini in the Art Renewal Center

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Insecula

Web Gallery of Art  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (mostly in Italian)  

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

Artyzm

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project  
4 works documented

PBase Photo Sharing
(Set the size to "original" to see images at their highest resolution)

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Other Web Sites:
Culture and History of Venice

Great Buildings Online

Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation

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

The Modernist Journals Project   NEW!

 
Articles:
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 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

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
"Bernini the Magnificent," article by Roderick Conway Morris

PBS
"Fury of Creation"

  
 
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The chair of St.Peter
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Truth from the monument to Alexander VII
Truth, from the monument to Alexander VII


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Death of the Blessed Ludovica Albertoni
Death of the Blessed Ludovica Albertoni


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Ecstasy of St. Theresa
Ecstasy of St. Theresa


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Portrait of The Artist in Middle Age
Portrait of The Artist in Middle Age


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David, Detail of the Head, 1623-23
David, Detail of the Head, 1623-23


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Sacred Places: St. Peter's Basilica
Sacred Places: St. Peter's Basilica

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