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BERNINI, GIOVANNI LORENZO (1598—1680)

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BERNINI, GIOVANNI LORENZO (1598—1680) , See also:Italian artist, was See also:born at See also:Naples. He was more celebrated as an architect and a sculptor than as a painter. At a very See also:early See also:age his See also:great skill in modelling introduced him to See also:court favour at See also:Rome, and he was specially patronized by Maffeo See also:Barberini, afterwards See also:Pope See also:Urban VIII., whose See also:palace he designed. None of his sculptured See also:groups at all come up to the promised excellence of his first effort, the See also:Apollo and See also:Daphne, nor are any of his paintings of particular merit. His busts were in so much See also:request that See also:Charles I. of See also:England, being unable to have a See also:personal interview with Bernini, sent him three portraits by Vandyck, from which the artist was enabled to See also:complete his See also:model. His architectural designs, including the great See also:colonnade of St See also:Peter's, brought him perhaps his greatest celebrity. See also:Louis XIV., when he contemplated the restoration of the Louvre, sent for Bernini, but did not adopt his designs. The artist's progress through See also:France was a triumphal procession, and he was most liberally rewarded by the great monarch. He See also:left a See also:fortune of over L'00,000.

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