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    Get Creative: Meet The Artist: Gian Lorenzo Bernini

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    Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian architect and sculptor in the 17th century who worked in the Baroque style. He is renowned for sculptures like the Baldacchino in St. Peter's Basilica and the Fountain of the Four Rivers, which depicts the four major rivers of four continents. Bernini sought to imbue his sculptures with great emotion and movement through twisted poses and expressive faces.

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    Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian architect and sculptor in the 17th century who worked in the Baroque style. He is renowned for sculptures like the Baldacchino in St. Peter's Basilica and the Fountain of the Four Rivers, which depicts the four major rivers of four continents. Bernini sought to imbue his sculptures with great emotion and movement through twisted poses and expressive faces.

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    Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian architect and sculptor in the 17th century who worked in the Baroque style. He is renowned for sculptures like the Baldacchino in St. Peter's Basilica and the Fountain of the Four Rivers, which depicts the four major rivers of four continents. Bernini sought to imbue his sculptures with great emotion and movement through twisted poses and expressive faces.

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    Meet the Artist: Gian Lorenzo Bernini


    Written by the Staff at Lyman Allyn Art Museum

    Gian Lorenzo Bernini was not only a well-known architect in Italy, he


    was also a very accomplished sculptor. He worked in a style called • Born in 1598 in Naples
    Baroque, which was popular from 1600-1750; the Baroque style com-
    bined ornate details and theatrical style with great emotion. Bernini • Sculptor, architect,
    wanted his Baroque sculptures to express a lot of feelings and emotion; painter, caricaturist
    to accomplish this he used energetic and twisted body shapes and faces
    with very emotional expressions. Two of his most recognized works in • Invented a new, very
    Rome, Italy include: the Baldacchino, a sculpture made to go over a expressive style of
    tomb inside St. Peter’s (an important church), and the Fountain of the sculpture called Baroque
    Four Rivers, an outdoor sculpture that is also a working fountain. The
    fountain shows four river gods, which represent four major rivers (the
    Nile, the Daube, the Ganges and the Rio de la Plata) on four continents.
    Can you identify which river is located on which continent?

    G e t Art Break
    Supplies needed: paper

    i v e
    Creat Bernini
    & pencil
    infused a lot
    of emotion into his
    sculptures. How do we
    communicate emotion
    without speaking? Can
    you draw a picture of
    a person expressing
    each of these emotions:
    joy, fear, sadness, and
    confidence?

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