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| Gianlorenzo Bernini art links |
Gianlorenzo Bernini Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Gianlorenzo Bernini at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
3 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
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
Cardinal de Richelieu (1585-1642)
Gianlorenzo Bernini at the Louvre Museum, Paris
St Jerome on his Knees before a Crucifix, 1665
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
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
3 works online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
Saints Andrew and Thomas
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
St Agnes
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 
Maffeo Barberini, Pope Urban VIII
Prado Museum Database, Madrid NEW!
(Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
The Royal Collection, London, UK
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 NEW!
Head of an Angel
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
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
A Boy Singing, ca.1650, possibly by Bernini
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
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"
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands NEW!
Works from the museum's drawings and engravings collection
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The Huntington Library, California
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
Virtual Uffizi
Head of a Youth (Head of an Angel)
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
5 works online when last checked
Art Fund for UK Museums
Drawings/ album
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Gianlorenzo Bernini at The Art Renewal Center
Gianlorenzo Bernini at The Artchive
Gianlorenzo Bernini in the 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
Gianlorenzo Bernini at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project 
4 works documented
Memory of the Netherlands Project
Great scans; use your mouse wheel to zoom in on the detail images
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
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)
Articles and Reference Sites:
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
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
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
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. | |
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The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini, & the Rivalry That Transformed Rome
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Bernini
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Bernini
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Bernini and the Art of Architecture
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Masters of Art: Bernini
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Bernini: Genius of the Baroque
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