Gian Lorenzo Bernini

"Rare man, sublime artificer, born by Divine Disposition and for the glory of Rome to illuminate the century," wrote Maffeo Barberini, Pope Urban VIII, of the great Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini (b. 1598, Naples, Italy - d. 1680 Rome). Born in 1598 in Naples, Bernini was a child prodigy, receiving his early training in sculpture from his father and completing his f...