Famous Bernini Sculptures

A LOOK AT

Around the age of eight, sculptor Bernini was already regarded as a prodigy, under the apprenticeship of his father Pietro Bernini, a capable Florentine sculptor who later settled in Rome, his career took off.

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Bernini was able to arrange massive sculptures that exuded a magnificent elegance as well as reflect extremely dramatic storylines with individuals displaying profound psychological states.

BERNINI'S STYLE

FAMOUS EXAMPLES OF BERNINI SCULPTURES

Hermaphrodite (date unknown)

Bacchanal: a faun teased by children (1616 – 1617 CE)

Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius (1618 – 1619 CE)

The Rape of Prosperina (1621 – 1622 CE)

Neptune and Triton (1622 – 1623 CE)

Apollo and Daphne (1622 – 1625 CE)

David (1623 – 1624 CE)

St. Peter’s Baldachin (1623 – 1634 CE)

The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1647 – 1652 CE)

Bust of Louis XIV (1665 CE)