"Do not let anyone tell you that stone is heavy."
- Lived
- 1598 – 1680
- Born
- Naples, Italy
- Movement
- High Baroque
- Known for
- Marble that breathes, bends and flies
Bernini was the architect of Baroque Rome. Sculptor, architect, painter and playwright, he shaped the city under eight popes — the colonnade of St. Peter's Square, the Baldacchino over the altar, the Four Rivers fountain in Piazza Navona. In marble he did the impossible: Daphne's fingers becoming leaves, Persephone's thigh yielding to Pluto's grip, Teresa's ecstasy caught mid-swoon. Nothing in his hands ever stayed still.
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