Pietro Bernini

Italian sculptor

Pietro Bernini
Portrait of Bernini
Born	Pietro Bernini 6 May 1562 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.

Biography

Bernini was born in Sesto Fiorentino, Tuscany. He moved to Naples to work on the Certosa di San Martino there, and Gian Lorenzo was born in Naples in 1598. In 1605 the family moved to Rome under the protection of Cardinal Scipione Borghese. In Rome, he worked on various projects for Pope Paul V, another Borghese, including the Pauline Chapel in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore.

One of Pietro Bernini's best-known contributions to the city of Rome is the Fontana della Barcaccia (Fountain of the Old Boat) which resembles a beached ship and is located at the foot of the Spanish Steps. It was commissioned by Pope Urban VIII and built in 1627.^[3] He also contributed to the Fountain of Neptune, Naples, completed between 1600 and 1601.

Initially collaborating with his son (for example on Boy with a Dragon in 1617) but later overshadowed by his talent, the elder Bernini ended his career as an independent sculptor around 1617, evidently happy to act as his son's assistant.^[4] He died in Rome, aged 67.

Gallery

Fontana della Barcaccia, Rome
Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore
Saint Martin Dividing his Cloak, Certosa di San Martino, Naples
Flora by Pietro Bernini, 1616

References

^ Pietro Bernini MET Museum ^{[dead link]}
^ Bernini: His Life and His Rome, by Franco Mormando, 2011, p. 9
^ "La fontana della Barcaccia". 21 March 2015.
^ Franco Mormando, Bernini: His Life and His Rome, 2011, pages 9-11

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

List of works

Sculpture

1610s	The Goat Amalthea with the Infant Jupiter and a Faun Bust of Giovanni Battista Santoni A Faun Teased by Children Boy with a Dragon The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence Saint Sebastian Bust of Pope Paul V Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius Bust of Giovanni Vigevano Damned Soul Blessed Soul Bust of Camilla Barbadoni
1620s	Bust of Carlo Antonio del Pozzo Neptune and Triton The Rape of Proserpina Apollo and Daphne Bust of Pope Gregory XV St. Peter's Baldachin Charity with Four Children David Bust of Alessandro Peretti di Montalto Saint Bibiana Busts of Pope Urban VIII Bust of Monsignor Pedro de Foix Montoya Bust of Cardinal Roberto Bellarmine Bust of Cardinal Giovanni Dolfin Bust of Cardinal Escoubleau de Sourdis Bust of Antonio Cepparelli Bust of Cardinal Melchior Klesl Two Angels in Sant'Agostino Bust of Francesco Barberini Bust of Antonio Barberini Busts of Cardinals Agostino and Pietro Valier Memorial to Carlo Barberini Tomb of Pope Urban VIII Saint Longinus Sleeping Hermaphroditus (mattress)
1630s	Statue of Carlo Barberini Two Busts of Cardinal Scipione Borghese Tomb of Countess Matilda of Tuscany Pasce Oves Meas Bust of Costanza Bonarelli Busts of Paolo Giordano and Isabella Orsini Statue of Pope Urban VIII Bust of King Charles I Bust of Thomas Baker Medusa
1640s	Bust of Cardinal Richilieu Memorial to Alessandro Valtrini Memorial to Ippolito Merenda Memorial to Maria Raggi Confessio of Santa Francesca Romana Raimondi Chapel Truth Unveiled by Time Bust of Pope Leo X Ecstasy of Saint Teresa Noli Me Tangere
1650s	Busts of Pope Innocent X Bust of Francesco I d'Este Corpus The Vision of Constantine Daniel and the Lion Habakkuk and the Angel Chair of Saint Peter Saints Jerome and Mary Magdalen
1660s	Statue of Alexander VII Busts of Alexander VII Statue of King Philip IV of Spain Elephant and Obelisk Angel with the Crown of Thorns Angel with the Superscription Bust of Gabriele Fonseca Bust of Louis XIV Equestrian Statue of King Louis XIV
1670s	Blessed Ludovica Albertoni Tomb of Pope Alexander VII Statue of Pope Clement X Bust of the Saviour

Architecture
and fountains

Paintings

Self-Portrait as a Young Man
Portrait of Pope Urban VIII
Saint Andrew and Saint Thomas
Self-Portrait as a Mature Man
Portrait of a Boy
Christ Mocked

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