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Pietro Bernini (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, as well as the sculptor-architect Luigi Bernini. Biography. Bernini was born in Sesto Fiorentino, Tuscany.
Pietro Bernini was an Italian late Mannerist sculptor who was invited to Rome in 1605/06 to work for Pope Paul V (1605–21) on the decorations of the Paolina (Borghese) Chapel in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, where he carved the coronation of Clement VIII (1612–13), as well as the marble.
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Pietro Bernini nacque a Sesto Fiorentino, nel Ducato di Firenze (oggi in Toscana), il 5 maggio 1562, figlio del ciabattino Lorenzo Bernini e di Camilla Boccapianola. Venne indirizzato alla scultura a Firenze, nella bottega di Ridolfo Sirigatti; proseguì poi i propri studi apprendendo l'arte dal Cavalier d'Arpino, a Roma, in un ambiente saturo di ma...
Madonna col Bambino e san Giovannino, statua, prima metà del XVII secolo, Napoli, Museo nazionale di San MartinoAssunta, altorilievo, 1607, Roma, Basilica di Santa Maria MaggioreHans-Ulrich Kessler, Pietro Bernini 1562-1629, Monaco, Hirmer 2005 (in tedesco; studio monografico con catalogo completo delle opere).Howard Hibbard, BERNINI, Pietro, collana Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 9, Roma, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 1967, SBN IT\ICCU\RAV\0018867. URL consultato il 28 agosto 2016.Bernini, Pietro, su Treccani.it – Enciclopedie on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.Roberto Papini, BERNINI, Pietro, in Enciclopedia Italiana, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 1930.Bernini, Piètro, su sapere.it, De Agostini.(EN) Pietro Bernini, su Enciclopedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.ARTS & CULTURE. Bernini’s Genius. The Baroque master animated 17th-century Rome with his astonishing sculpture and architecture. Arthur Lubow. October 2008. Bernini's Fountain of the Four...
Bernini was also a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture along with his contemporaries, the architect Francesco Borromini and the painter and architect Pietro da Cortona. His designs helped restore Rome to its former architectural glory through an extensive urban planning project taken on under his patronage by the ...
Artist: Pietro Bernini (Italian, 1562–1629) Artist: Assisted by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, Naples 1598–1680 Rome) Date: 1616–17. Culture: Italian, Rome. Medium: Marble
Pietro Bernini (born 1562, Tuscany — died 1629, Rome), Italian late Mannerist sculptor who was invited to Rome in 1605/06 to work for Pope Paul V (1605–21) on the decorations of the Paolina (Borghese) Chapel in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, where he carved the coronation of Clement VIII (1612–13), as well as the marble relief ...
