Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Within about 40 years the Medici Bank was able to procure so much wealth and profit that it was economically equal with the Florentine treasury. Risks were taken to obtain as much profit as possible. Loans were given out to princes, kings, and even the hard working merchant. Everything was done for the money. The Medici Bank and family were the icons of Florence and the model standard when it came to wealth and power, they became the silent rulers of their hometown after the realization that…

As an adult Michelangelo was very arrogant and never satisfied with himself; he may have had the right to be arrogant. He was skilled in most forms of art, although he always thought of himself as a sculptor. For two years Michelangelo lived in the Medici household while working on the sculptural relief The Battle of the Centaurs (“Michelangelo Buonarti Biography”). Michelangelo also made many statues in the Medici household garden (“Michelangelo Buonarti Biography”). He was commissioned by…

the baroque era portraits of woman were not as common as portraits of men. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Alessandro Algardi and Guiliano Finelli all attempted sculpting a bust of three different women around the 1630’s, each brought their own unique style to the portrait. Bernini the most famous and renowned artist out the three set a precedent for sculptures and other artists would continually be compared to Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Alessandro Algardi and Guiliano Finelli are no exception to this,…

In this essay I’ll be discussing the history of Baroque art and two artist from that era, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Then I’ll explain the role of the church during this era and how Caravaggio and Bernini differently conveyed faith and commitment to the church. Lastly, I’ll give my visual analyze on Bernini’s painting Ecstasy of St. Teresa and Caravaggio’s painting Crucifixion of St. Peter. The Baroque era came about from the Reformation which was a religious…

Renaissance. His piece entitled Pietà was created between the years of 1498–1499 in St. Peter’s Basilica (Kleiner). Gian Lorenzo Bernini was also an Italian sculptor and architect, but during the Baroque period. The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa was finished in 1652 for the Cornaro family chapel in Santa Maria della Vittoria (Kleiner). Though there is complexity in the Baroque moment of Gian Bernini’s Ectasy of Saint Theresa, the Neoplatonist and humanist influences on Michelangelo’s Pietà are…

Bernini was a major figure in architecture, and he is credited with the creation of the Baroque style of sculptures. Bernini is significant in history because his architecture was used by the Christian church to make the Baldachin inside of St. Peters Basilica and the Colonnade and Piazza of St. Peters Basilica…

strong Olympian type pose detailing every muscle in my body, while my face is soft and show this activity is effortless. This statue will be located in the front yard in front of my beautiful golden and marble temple. In addition to this statue I want Bernini to build several smaller statues of myself striking different poses that range from flirty to furious and these will be placed throughout the…

Gian Lorenzo Bernini was a sculpture unlike any sculpture before him. The episode, The Power of Art, illustrates examples of his sculptures and his work as an architect. Bernini was able to carve so much depth and so much emotion out of a single piece of marble. The world had never seen such movement and play out from a sculptures and Bernini had revolutionized a new way in the world of sculpting. The accounts of Bernini’s life are based from a biography written by Filippo Baldinucci, who…

yielded massively important original Baroque masterpieces, and helped foster and shape some of the era’s greatest talents, like that of Bernini. “Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice.”-Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Without the guidance and patronage Bernini received from a young age he might not have turned into the sculptural and…

express disapproval of the ideas of Galileo or censure a book by Conelius Janesen. Also, the Pope Urban VIII was a huge promoter of the art and artist of that time. He was also the leading patron of the significant Baroque sculptor and builder Gian Lorenzo Bernini, some of whose most beautiful works he commissioned, together with the Triton Fountain, loggias of St. Peter’s, Rome, and Urban’s tomb in the…