GIOVANNI LORENZO See also:

• GIOVANNI LORENZO BERNINI (1598—1680)

BERNINI (1598—1680)  , See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian artist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• NAPLES
• NAPLES (Ital. Napoli, and Lat. Neapolis)
• NAPLES, KINGDOM OF

Naples . He was more celebrated as an architect and a sculptor than as a painter . At a very See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age his See also:

• GREAT

great skill in modelling introduced him to See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court favour at See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome, and he was specially patronized by Maffeo See also:

• BARBERINI

Barberini, afterwards See also:

• POPE (Gr. irarraas, post-classical Lat. papa, father)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1688–1744)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1763-1835)
• POPE, JANE (1742-1818)
• POPE, JOHN (1822-1892)
• POPE, SIR THOMAS (c. 1507-1559)

Pope See also:

• URBAN
• URBAN (Urbanus)

Urban VIII., whose See also:

• PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace he designed . None of his sculptured See also:

• GROUPS
• GROUPS, THEORY

groups at all come up to the promised excellence of his first effort, the See also:

• APOLLO (Gr. 'A2r6XXwv,'Airkkhwv)

Apollo and See also:

• DAPHNE

Daphne, nor are any of his paintings of particular merit . His busts were in so much See also:

• REQUEST, LETTERS OF

request that See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles I. of See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, being unable to have a See also:

• PERSONAL

personal interview with See also:

• BERNINI, GIOVANNI LORENZO (1598—1680)

Bernini, sent him three portraits by Vandyck, from which the artist was enabled to See also:

• COMPLETE

complete his See also:

• MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model . His architectural designs, including the great See also:

• COLONNADE

colonnade of St See also:

• PETER
• PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
• PETER (PEDRO)
• PETER, EPISTLES OF
• PETER, ST

Peter's, brought him perhaps his greatest celebrity . See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis XIV., when he contemplated the restoration of the Louvre, sent for Bernini, but did not adopt his designs . The artist's progress through See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France was a triumphal procession, and he was most liberally rewarded by the great monarch . He See also:

• LEFT

left a See also:

• FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune of over L'00,000 .