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Definition of Bernini
1. Noun. Italian sculptor and architect of the baroque period in Italy; designed many churches and chapels and tombs and fountains (1598-1680).
Generic synonyms: Architect, Designer, Carver, Sculptor, Sculpturer, Statue Maker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bernini
Literary usage of Bernini
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Bernini, DOMENICO, son of the famous artist Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, ... Bernini,
GIOVANNI LORENZO, one of the most vigorous and fertile of Italian ..."
2. The Arts and Artists: Or Anecdotes & Relics, of the Schools of Painting by James Elmes (1825)
"Maffeo Barberini; ma assai maggiore e la nostra, che il Caval. Bernini viva nel
nostro pontificato." ". It a singular piece of good fortune for you, Bernini ..."
3. A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and by William Tooke, William Beloe, Robert Nares (1798)
"In 1665, Bernini was invited to France, to work in the Louvre ; and here he
executed a buft of the ... Bernini died at Rome, the Spth of November, 1680. ..."
4. The Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Comprising Original Anecdotes of Many by James Northcote (1819)
"This brings to my remembrance the anecdote told of Bernini, the famous sculptor,
that Charles the First having a desire that Bernini should make his bust, ..."
5. Annals of the Artists of Spain by William Stirling Maxwell (1891)
"Beautiful fountains, palaces, and churches, rising in all quarters of the city,
displayed the architectural genius of Bernini, the friend of Popes, ..."
6. Old Paris: Its Court and Literary Salons by Catherine Charlotte Jackson (1880)
"—Perrault, Mansard, and Bernini.—Le Chateau de Maisons.— Bernini Returns to
Rome.—The Louvre and its Doctor.—The Louvre Abandoned.—" Un Favori sans Merite. ..."
7. Italy, Rome and Naples by Hippolyte Taine, John Durand (1872)
"The first is Santa Maria del Popolo, a church of the fifteenth century, modernised
by Bernini, but still impressive. Wide arcades in rows separate the great ..."
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