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Sculpture: Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Looks

(Naples, 1598-Rome, 1680) Sculptor, painter and architect Italian. Bernini is the great genius of the Italian Baroque, the heir of force sculpture of Michelangelo and the Baroque main architectural model in Europe. He learned the rudiments of sculpture in the workshop of his father, Pietro (1562-1629), a Mannerist sculptor of some relief. In his earliest works ( Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius , The Rape of Proserpine ) are already apparent break with the late mannerist and radically different conception of the sculpture, the intense drama, grandeur and the search for scenic effects are already present in these early creations.

In 1629, Bernini was appointed architect of St. Peter's Basilica by Pope Urban VIII. From then until his death he worked continuously for the popes, but some interruption during the pontificate of Innocent X, who preferred to other artists and a few commissioned works.

His best contribution to the basilica of St. Peter was, however, the colonnade around the square in front of the temple, which has earned praise for continuing its harmony and its scenic effects. Lesser extent, Bernini also worked for private patrons, and the fruit of this collaboration is the work perhaps more representative of their style of sculpture, the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa .

With its beautiful baroque buildings, Bernini instrumental as anyone in the urban renewal of Rome, which thus provides the same crowd of statues and monuments that still some sources currently contribute to the beauty of the city. The Innocent X commissioned him to decorate the Piazza Navona, named Fountain the four rivers is the most spectacular of these achievements.