Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini was arguably the greatest sculptor-architect of the 17th century. He was born in Naples in 1598, the son of a Florentine sculptor by whom he was trained. He began his career as a student of his father Pietro Bernini (1582-1629), a sculptor who had himself worked at one time with Camillo Mariani. He owes his father for his accomplished techniques in the handling of marble and also an impressive list of patrons; that included the Borghese and the Barbarini families. After settling in Rome, Bernini came to the attention of the future Pope Urban VIII. Under the patronage of Pope Urban VIII, Bernini spent his entire career in Rome where he gained his architectural fame under Alexander VII. When Barberini was subsequently installed as Pope Urban VIII, 1623, Bernini was put in charge of building operations at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, where one of his early works, 1624-33, was the canopy [baldachin] over the high altar. Bernini originally worked in the Late Mannerist tradition but rejected the contrived tendencies of
Sant'Andrea al Quirinale was small Baroque church and was one of Bernini's great works. An oval convex entry porch extends into a small forecourt, formed by two John Julius Norwich, ed. Great Architecture of the World. p175. Bernini also continued to produce a couple portrait busts. The first these was pf Francesco d?Este. He designed a lot more after that. In 1665, Bernini took a trip to Paris. The meaning of this trip was to create a new palace for the French Royal family.
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