Much of the Baroque grandeur of the Eternal City—its churches, fountains, piazzas and monuments—can be credited to Bernini and his followers. Yet, despite his artistic stature, Bernini is only ...

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The Triton sculpture now at the Rijksmuseum was created by Bernini as a study for the Fountain of the Moor on Rome’s Piazza Navona, commissioned by Pope Innocent X in the 1650s. In it ...

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam obtains an important terracotta model by Gian Lorenzo Bernini on permanent loan from a private collection: it was made in 1653 for the triton of the Moor Fountain. “This ...

He also designed St Peter’s Square and the monumental St Peter's Baldachin in the Vatican, and made the celebrated Fontana dei quattro fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers), located at the heart of ...

10 Facts About Rome's Trevi Fountain The Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini designed many of Rome's fountains, but the one in Piazza Navona is perhaps the most magnificent. The 17th-century ...

The Fountain of the Four Rivers is located in Piazza Navona, that lovely open square just a five minute stroll from the Pantheon, and was designed by master of Baroque design Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

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The city has to make up a gap between the $800,000 collected through the settlement and the cost of fountain repairs, which officials are estimating to be at least $1.4 million. Underneath the ...

His hand was stilled due to paralysis shortly before his death at 81 in 1680, having created the most memorable monuments in Rome. Rome is known as an ‘open air museum’ largely due to Bernini’s ...