Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini:
Italian Baroque sculptor, painter and architect.1598-1680
was a pre-eminent Baroque sculptor and architect of 17th Century Rome. Bernini was born in Naples to a Mannerist sculptor, Pietro Bernini, originally from Florence. At the age of seven he accompanied his father to Rome, where his father was involved in several high profile projects. There as a boy, his skill was soon noticed by the painter Annibale Carracci and by Pope Paul V, and Bernini gained the patronage exclusively under Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the pope's nephew. . Related Artists to Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini : |
Felipe Ramirez |
Isack jouderville |
Gustavus Hesselius |
Johann Kaspar Scherrer |
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