Example sentences for: bernini

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  • Rounding off the south side are the twin Baroque churches, Santa Maria dei Miracoli and Santa Maria in Montesanto, completed by the 17th-century masters Gianlorenzo Bernini and Carlo Fontana.

  • Adorned by ten angel sculptures by Bernini and his studio, it arrives at the Castel Sant’Angelo, originally built as Hadrian’s mausoleum in a.d. 139.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Romans who delight in Bernini’s scorn for his rivals suggest that the Nile god covers his head rather than look at Borromini’s church of Sant’Agnese in Agone, and the river god of the Americas is poised to catch it in case it collapses.


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