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 (bər-nē′nē, bĕr-), Giovanni Lorenzo or Gianlorenzo 1598-1680.
Italian sculptor and architect. A master of the baroque style, he is noted for his flowing, dynamic sculpture, such as Apollo and Daphne (1622-1624), and his designs for many churches, including portions of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome.
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Bernini

(Italian berˈnini)
n
(Biography) Gian Lorenzo (dʒan loˈrɛntso). 1598–1680, Italian painter, architect, and sculptor: the greatest exponent of the Italian baroque
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Ber•ni•ni

(bərˈni ni)

n.
Giovanni or Gian (dʒɑn) Lorenzo, 1598–1680, Italian sculptor, architect, and painter.
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His soul palpitating with love of art, he painted the models who hung about the stairway of Bernini in the Piazza de Spagna, undaunted by their obvious picturesqueness; and his studio was full of canvases on which were portrayed moustachioed, large-eyed peasants in peaked hats, urchins in becoming rags, and women in bright petticoats.
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The book also contains itineraries for five walking tours that hit a number of sites grouped by themes of Classical Rome, the Popes and the Renaissance, Bernini and the Baroque, the Grand Tour and the Belle <'E>poque, and fascism and the Second World War.
This is the sixth year there has been an Ice Cathedral in Hrebienok and the theme is St Peter's Basilica in Rome and Bernini's Colonnade."It took a record 225 tons of ice, divided into 1,880 blocks," said the director of the Regional Organization of Tourism in the High Tatras, Veronika Littvovaacute.
Peter's in Rome, Minor explores Bernini's use of metaphor, rhetorical strategies, and irony, and his "intuitive grasp of the slippage between image and meaning" (p.
Bernini and His Age is the most significant book available in any language on the Church of the Gesu in Rome--the mother church of the Society of Jesus.
To help celebrate the 75th anniversary of its founding in 1942, Fairfield University, a Jesuit institution, is hosting "The Holy Name: Art of the Gesu: Bernini and His Age" in Bellarmine Hall Galleries until May.
This is one of the many plot lines explored in 'The Holy Name--Art of the Gesu: Bernini and his Age', which opens next month at the Fairfield University Art Museum (2 February-19 May) in celebration of the 75th anniversary of this Jesuit academic institution during the 2017-18 academic year.