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Original works by Gianlorenzo Bernini available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Putti Carrying the Cross
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
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) NEW! 
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 
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, ca.1616-17 (Zoom)
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
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
National Gallery, London, UK NEW!
Saints Andrew and Thomas
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
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 NEW!
The Crucified Christ (Corpus)
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto NEW!
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)
Busto di 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
Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (in German)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Bust of Pope Clement X, ca.1676
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
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 Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) NEW!
The Huntington Library, California
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
Virtual Uffizi
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Pictures from Image Archives:
Gianlorenzo Bernini in the Art Renewal Center
Gianlorenzo Bernini in the Artchive
Gianlorenzo Bernini at 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
Artyzm
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
PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site NEW!
USC Annenberg School for Communication
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
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 75-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) NEW!
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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