Sesto Fiorentino, Duchy of Florence, in present-day Tuscany, Italy
Died
29 August 1629(1629-08-29) (aged 67)
Rome, Papal States, in present-day Italy
Nationality
Italian
Known for
Sculpture
Notable work
Fontana della Barcaccia
Movement
Baroque style
Pietro Bernini (6 May 1562 – 29 August 1629) was an Italian sculptor.[1] He was the father of one of the most famous artists of Baroque, Gian Lorenzo Bernini,[2] as well as the sculptor-architect Luigi Bernini.
^Pietro Bernini MET Museum [dead link]
^Bernini: His Life and His Rome, by Franco Mormando, 2011, p. 9
PietroBernini (6 May 1562 – 29 August 1629) was an Italian sculptor. He was the father of one of the most famous artists of Baroque, Gian Lorenzo Bernini...
Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (UK: /bɛərˈniːni/, US: /bərˈ-/, Italian: [ˈdʒan loˈrɛntso berˈniːni]; Italian Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 1598 –...
Luigi Bernini (1612, Rome - 22 December 1681, Rome) was an Italian engineer, architect, and sculptor. The son of PietroBernini and his wife Angelica...
Children is a marble sculpture by Italian artists Gian Lorenzo Bernini and his father PietroBernini. It was executed in 1616 and 1617, when Gian Lorenzo was...
architect Pietro Bembo (1470–1547), Italian scholar, poet, literary theorist, member of the Knights Hospitaller and cardinal PietroBernini (1562–1629)...
Rome's Piazza di Spagna (Spanish Square). Pope Urban VIII commissioned PietroBernini in 1623 to build the fountain as part of a prior Papal project to erect...
is enclosed in a sculpted gilt bronze casing designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and constructed between 1647 and 1653. In 2012, Pope Benedict XVI described...
Baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The numbering follows Rudolph Wittkower's Catalogue, published in 1966 in Gian Lorenzo Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman...
to PietroBernini, father of a more famous son, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who is recently said to have collaborated on the decoration. The elder Bernini had...
Michelangelo Naccherino, a pupil of Michelangelo; also present are PietroBernini marble sculptures of St. Stephen and St. Lawrence.[citation needed]...
Galleria Borghese in Rome. According to Filippo Baldinucci, even before PietroBernini moved his family from Naples to Rome, eight-year-old Gian Lorenzo created...
strangling serpents sent to kill him. It was carved by PietroBernini and his son Gian Lorenzo Bernini for Maffeo Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII). In 1702...
beginning of the baroque period, sculpted by PietroBernini and his son, the more famous Gian Lorenzo Bernini. At the right corner of the Spanish Steps rises...
completed by a mature Bernini during the Pamphili papacy of Innocent X. When Innocent acceded to the papal throne, he shunned Bernini's artistic services;...
Porta in the 1570s with later contributions from Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the 1650s. Bernini sculpted a large terracotta model of the central figure, which...
1585) August 18 – Vendela Skytte, Swedish noble (b. 1608) August 29 – PietroBernini, Italian sculptor (b. 1562) September 11 – Herman Hugo, Dutch Jesuit...
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