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Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Pietro Bernini
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The three great masters of the Baroque in Rome were Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Francesco Borromini, and Pietro da Cortona. Bernini... a brilliant sculptor, designed both the baldachin (an ornamental canopy-like structure) with bronze spiral columns over the grave of St. Peter (1624–33) and the vast enclosing colonnade (begun 1656) that forms the piazza of St. Peter's.
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Bernini's activity as a painter was a sideline which he did mainly in his youth. Despite this his work reveals a sure and brilliant hand, free from any trace of pedantry. He studied in Rome under his father, Pietro, and soon proved a precocious infant prodigy. His work was immediately sought after by major collectors.
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GIOVANNI LORENZO BERNINI was, in the assessment of Janson (History of Art, p. 410), the greatest sculptor-architect of the 17th century. He began his career as a student of his father Pietro Bernini (1582-1629), a sculptor who had himself worked at one time with Camillo Mariani.
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Bernini nació en Nápoles, ciudad en la que su padre Pietro, toscano, trabajaba como escultor. Al poco tiempo se trasladó a Calabria junto con su mujer, la napolitana Angelica Galante. En 1605 regresan a Roma y Pietro obtiene la protección del cardenal Scipione Caffarelli-Borghese y la ocasión de mostrar el precoz talento de su hijo.
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Bernini hatte maßgeblichen Einfluss auf die Entwicklung der barocken Skulptur und Architektur in Rom. Ausgebildet wurde er in der Bildhauerwerkstatt seines Vaters Pietro Bernini (1562–1629). Begraben ist er in einem schlichten Grab in der Kirche Santa Maria Maggiore in Rom.
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