Example sentences for: bernini

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  • Unfortunately, there is nothing to match Bernini’s great square to give you a proper perspective, and the church is dwarfed by the huge Queen Elizabeth Hotel and the Sun Life skyscraper.

  • Crowning seven hills along the winding banks of the River Tiber, Rome has numerous different personalities: ancient Rome of imperial ruins; Catholic Rome of Vatican City and countless churches; the Renaissance city of Michelangelo and Raphael or the Baroque of Bernini and Borromini; and a modern metropolis of interminable traffic jams, fashionable boutiques and cafés, as well as factories and characterless apartment buildings that make up the post-war eye-sore suburbs.

  • The relish Versace brings to his clear vinyl dresses strewn with rhinestones, or to shiny-colored opaque ones punctuated with nifty cutouts, has traditional bravura and sprezzatura in it, suggesting Bernini at his most outré.

  • In the center, Bernini’s Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Fiumi) celebrates the great rivers of the four continents: the Americas (Río de la Plata), Europe (Danube), Asia (Ganges), and Africa (Nile).

  • 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.


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