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Gian Lorenzo Bernini was not an entirely nice man, and neither was his little brother, Luigi. One morning in 1638 Bernini saw Luigi leaving the house of his, Bernini's, mistress, who accompanied him to the door, Charles Avery tells us, 'in a suggestively dishevelled state.' Bernini, like most sculptors, was a strong man. He chased his little brother to their work place at St. Peter's, and went at him with a crowbar, breaking a couple of his ribs. Then he pursued him home, sword in hand. When his mother closed the door against him, Bernini broke it down. Meanwhile Luigi had taken refuge in Santa Maria Maggiore. Once again Bernini pursued him, but finally gave up beating on the door.
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini was a new Michelangelo for the 17th century. Like the great Renaissance master, Bernini was a sculptor, an architect and a painter. He too was the leading artist of his period – the Baroque – and had a profound influence on artistic projects throughout Rome as he worked under the patronage of the papacy.
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini perfected combining architecture and the plastic arts for the expression of resurgent Catholic devotion. His schemes were produced by a flexible workshop of artists and craftspeople working under his overall supervision. For more than fifty years he worked in and around Rome's principal site of pilgrimage, Saint Peter's Basilica. The creation of tombs and altars, entire chapels and processional ways required a lengthy process of planning and manufacture.
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The Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) almost singlehandedly created high baroque sculpture. His work in architecture, although more conservative, ranks him among the three or four major architects of the 17th century.
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini was born in 1598 in Naples Italy. He was sculpting by an early age and is considered one of the most important sculptors to come form the Italian baroque period. He not only was a sculptor but ... an architect and painter as well. Some of his more famous works include Apollo and Daphne, St. Theresa in Ecstasy, and Piazza St. Pietro.
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini was born in Naples on the 7th December, 1598, the city where his father had only just moved to with his wife, the Neapolitan, Angelica Galante, to work on the building site for the Charterhouse of St. Martin's. When he returned to Roma, he took part in the works begun by Paul V in Santa Maria Maggiore, gaining the protection of cardinal Scipione Borghese and the chance to show off the precocious talent of his son. An important anecdote attributes cardinal Maffeo Barberini (the future pope Urban VIII) with the phrase aimed at Pietro Bernini "Be careful.This lad will overtake you a will without doubt be more able than his teacher':
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