Bernini’s Rejected French Sculpture
Bernini created the interior marble facade, canopy and high altar of St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City (Photo: rachel_titiriga, flickr)
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598 – 1680) should be familiar to visitors to Rome. He essentially created the Baroque city that we see today producing sculptures, fountains, buildings and the majority of the interior of St. Peter’s Basilica. Considering that he started creating accurate portrait busts at 14 and continued to work until he was 82, Bernini is deservedly known as a prolific genius. But did you know that even his work was occasionally rejected? Read more
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