biography
| name: |
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo
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pronunciation:
[berneenee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1598–1680)
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| biography:
| Baroque sculptor, architect, and painter, born in Naples, SW Italy, the son of a sculptor, Pietro Bernini (1562–1629). He went to Rome at an early age and was introduced to the papal court. He completed the bronze baldacchino in St Peter's (1633), and the fountain of the four river gods in the Piazza Navona (1647). In 1656 he decorated the apse of St Peter's with the so-called Cathedra Petri, designed the colonnade in front of the cathedral, and in 1663 the grand staircase to the Vatican. |
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