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(2) Gianlorenzo [Gian Lorenzo; Giovanni Lorenzo] Bernini
(b Naples, 7 Dec 1598; d Rome, 28 Nov 1680). Sculptor, architect, draughtsman and painter, son of (1) Pietro Bernini. He is considered the most outstanding sculptor of the 17th century and a formative influence on the development of the Italian Baroque style. His astonishing abilities as a marble carver were combined with an inventive genius of the highest order. From the mid-1620s the support of successive popes made his the controlling influence on most aspects of artistic production in Rome. Although his independent works of sculpture, both statues and portrait busts, are among the most brilliant manifestations of their kind in Western art, his genius found its highest expression in projects in which he combined sculpture, painting and architecture with scenographic daring and deep religious conviction to express more fervently than any other artist the spiritual vision of the Catholic Counter-Reformation Church.
Part of the Bernini family
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- Bernini, Gianlorenzo
- Bernini
- Bernini: (2) Gianlorenzo Bernini, §I, 3(iv): Architecture: Piazza S Pietro
- Chigi: (3) Alexander VII
- France, §II, 3(ii): Louis XIV style architecture, c 1660–c 1700
- Italy, §III, 5(ii)(a): Early Baroque painting, c 1590–c 1620: Rome
- Rome, §III, 5(i): Art life and organization, 1601–1700: Artistic environment
- Rome, §VI: Accademia di S Luca
- architecture
- Italy, §II, 4(i): Baroque and Rococo architecture, c 1600–c 1750: Introduction
- baldacchinos
- Altar, §II, 4(i): Roman Catholic, after c 1550: Monumental
- Charles the Bald
- Ciborium (ii)
- Heraldry, §II, 3: Western ecclesiastical
- Italy, §V, 3: Interior decoration, 1600–1699
- Orders, archit., §I, 2(iii)(c): Renaissance and after: Invention of new orders
- Ornament and pattern, §II, 4(i): Western Baroque: Italy
- Shrine, §I, 3: Europe: The Reformation to present
- Throne, §II, 1(i): Europe, before c 1500: Ecclesiastical
- Throne, §II, 2(i): Europe, after c 1500: Ecclesiastical
- catafalques
- cathedrals
- chapels
- churches
- Borromini, Francesco, §I, 7: Piazza Navona
- Gimignani: (2) Ludovico Gimignani
- Ignatius Loyola
- Italy, §II, 4(ii): Baroque and Rococo architecture, c 1600–c 1750: Rome
- Rome, §II, 3(iii): Urban development, 1600–1750
- Urban planning, §III, 1: c 1450–c 1800: Planning theory
- loggias
- palaces
- palazzi
- Collegio di Propaganda Fide
- Palazzo Barberini
- Palazzo Capodiferro-Spada
- Palazzo Chigi-Odescalchi
- Palazzo Montecitorio
- ruin buildings
- squares (town)
- staircases
- turrets
- assistants
- Maratti, Carlo, §2(i)(b): Subject compositions: Mature years, 1662–c 1680
- Abbatini, Guido Ubaldo
- Anguier, Michel
- Baratta, Francesco (uncle) (b c. 1600-66)
- Baratta, Giovanni Maria
- Cortona, Pietro da
- Ferrata, Ercole
- Finelli, Giuliano
- Gimignani, Giacinto
- Giosafatti, Giuseppe
- Mazzuoli, Giuseppe (1644-1725)
- Raggi, (Ercole) Antonio (1624-86)
- Romanelli, Giovanni Francesco
- Rossi, Mattia de
- Vanni, Raffaele
- attributions
- book illustrations
- caricatures
- cartouches
- choir-stalls
- coats of arms
- collaboration
- Kircher, Athanasius
- Pellegrini, Carlo
- Bernini, Luigi
- Borromini, Francesco
- Carlone (i), Giovanni Andrea, II (1639-97)
- Castelli, Domenico
- Du Quesnoy, François (1597-1643)
- Fancelli, Cosimo
- Ferrata, Ercole
- Lucenti, Girolamo
- Mochi, Francesco (1580-1654)
- Pellegrini, Carlo
- Rainaldi, Carlo
- Schor, Johann Paul
- competitions
- copies
- drawings
- frames
- furniture
- Gesamtkunstwerk
- groups and movements
- metalwork
- methods
- models
- musical instruments
- pageants
- paintings
- patrons and collectors
- Reynolds, Joshua, §IV: Collecting and dealing
- Alexander VII, Pope (reg 1655-67)
- Alfonso IV, 9th Duke of Modena and Reggio (reg 1658-62)
- Altieri, Padrone, Cardinal
- Barberini (family) (17th cent.)
- Barberini, Antonio, Cardinal
- Borghese, Marcantonio IV, Prince
- Borghese, Scipione, Cardinal
- Bracciano, Livio Odescalchi, Duca di
- Carmelite Order
- Charles I, King of England and Scotland (reg 1625-49)
- Christina, Queen of Sweden (reg 1632-54)
- Clement IX, Pope (reg 1667-70)
- Coke, Thomas, 1st Earl of Leicester of the 1st creation (1697-1759)
- Contini Bonacossi, Alessandro, Conte
- Cornaro, Federigo, Cardinal
- Francesco I, 8th Duke of Modena and Reggio (reg 1629-58)
- Gregory XV, Pope (reg 1621-3)
- Henrietta Maria, Queen of England and Scotland (1609-69)
- Howard (ii), Henry, 4th Earl of Carlisle
- Innocent X, Pope (reg 1644-55)
- Jesuit Order
- Lely, Peter
- Louis XIV, King of France (reg 1643-1715)
- Ludovisi, Ludovico, Cardinal
- Mazarin, Jules, Cardinal
- Medinaceli, Luís de la Cerda Fernández de Córdoba Folch de Cardona y Aragón, 9th Duque de (1660-1711)
- Paul V, Pope (reg 1605-21)
- Peretti(-Montalto), Alessandro, Cardinal
- Pio di Savoia, Carlo Francesco, Cardinal
- Pourtalès-Gorgier, James-Alexandre, Comte de
- Pozzo (Lumbroso), Cassiano dal
- Roscioli, Giovanni Maria
- Tarnowski, Jan Feliks, Count and Waleria
- Urban VIII, Pope (reg 1623-44)
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- productions
- pupils
- Antomaria Parodi, Domenico di
- Bolgi, Andrea
- Chéron, Charles-Jean-François
- Contini, Giovanni Battista
- Delcour, Jean (1631-1707)
- Parodi, Filippo
- reproductions in ceramics
- reproductive prints by others
- sculpture
- Antiquaries and antiquarian societies, §2: 17th century
- Classicism, §1: Introduction
- Classicism, §4: Renaissance to 17th century
- Du Quesnoy: (2) François Du Quesnoy, §4: Monumental works
- Façade decoration, §III, 4: Sculpture: High Renaissance and Baroque
- Italy, §IV, 4(i): Baroque sculpture, c 1600–c 1750: Rome
- Nude, §3: Baroque, Rococo and Neo-classicism, 1600–1800
- Rome, §VII, 2(iii): Sculpture gardens, 17th century and after
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