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Definition of Giovanni Lorenzo 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 Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
Literary usage of Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lives of Celebrated Architects, Ancient Amd Modern: With Historical and by Francesco Milizia, Eliza Taylor tr Cresy (1826)
"... AN ENTIRE CATALOGUE OF THE WORKS OF Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini. Profiles and
Busts in Marble, tyc. Of Giovanni Battista Santoni, Maggiordomo of ..."
2. 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, lived in
the early part of the eighteenth century. He became a prelate and canon of ..."
3. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities by Shearjashub Spooner (1865)
"Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, whose renown filled all Europe in the seventeenth
century, was called the Michael Angelo .of his age, because, like that great ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1819)
"Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini. Born 1598—Died 1680. Group of Apollo and Daphne in the
Villa Borghese, near Rome. David preparing to slay Goliath, ditto. ..."
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