Gianlorenzo Bernini was born in Naples on December 7, 1598. His father, Pietro, was a Florentine sculptor who had moved to Naples to practice painting. There he met Angelica Galante, a young Neapolitan girl. Pietro Bernini was considered on of the best sculptors of his time and was thought to be highly creative (Wallace, 13). Pietro’s style exemplified the refined passionless style of late Mannerism that soon led into

Not only was Bernini a master of stone he was also able to achieve what no previous sculptor had before. He pushed the traditional boundaries of sculpture in a way that proved that it could achieve the same intense realism that previously could only be captured in painting. Before his day, there was never anyone who could manipulate marble as precise and detailed as he could. He gave his works a marvelous softness and demonstrated that he had overcome the the great difficulty of making the marble flexible. Bernini found a way to combine painting and sculpture, something that no artist had previously been able to do before. For Bernini the whole point of art consisted in knowing, recognizing, and finding it.

Towards the end of his career Bernini emphasized both intense emotional and physical realism, his grasp of the crucial moment, his conception of artistic space, and desire to push the realms of sculpture. Bernini continually emphasized that he could make stone achieve what could be achieved in painting. He felt and portrayed that different sections of the sculpture could have different surfaces, that stone could be made to emphasize the different colors of the imagery, and that stone carving could achieve the same level of both emotional and physical realism that could be achieved in painting.

Bernini suffered from what today we might call a stroke. In his time however they believed that he suffered from illness caused by the inflammation in his head resulting in broken speech. Eventually because of this apoplexy, his right arm and entire left side beca

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