Example sentences for: bernini

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  • Beneath that dome, over the high altar, is another replica of St. Peter’s: Bernini’s celebrated gilded bronze canopy.

  • Michelangelo's metamorphic wit, somewhere between the nightmare transformations of his fellow Florentine Dante Alighieri and the baroque fantasies of Lorenzo Bernini, is nowhere better displayed than in his famous drawing of Phaëthon's fall.

  • Alternatively known as the Palazzo Barberini or the National Gallery of Antique Art (Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica) (on the Via delle Quattro Fontane), another architectural battleground for arch-rivals Borromini and Bernini, is worth a visit as much for its splendid Baroque décor as for its collection of 13th–17th-century paintings.

  • In a rare opportunity for concentrated effort by one man on such a gigantic project, Bernini completed the 284 travertine columns, 88 pilasters, and 140 statues of the saints in just 11 years, from 1656 to 1667.

  • Beneath the dome, Bernini’s great baldacchino (canopy), cast out of bronze beams taken from the Pantheon’s porch (see page 51), soars above the high altar.


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