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Gian Lorenzo Bernini

1598 - 1680

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Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (UK: , US: , Italian: [ˈdʒan loˈrɛntso berˈniːni]; Italian Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 1598 – 28 November 1680) was an Italian sculptor and architect. While a major figure in the world of architecture, he was more prominently the leading sculptor of his age, credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture. As one scholar has commented, "What Shakespeare is to drama, Bernini may be to sculpture: the first pan-European sculptor whose name is instantaneously identifiable with a particular manner and vision, and whose influence was inordinately powerful ..." In addition, he was a painter (mostly small canvases in oil) and a man of the theatre: he wrote, directed and acted in plays (mostly Carnival satires), for which he designed stage sets and theatrical machinery. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gian Lorenzo Bernini has received more than 2,795,483 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Gian Lorenzo Bernini is the 3rd most popular architect, the 55th most popular biography from Italy (down from 46th in 2019) and the most popular Italian Architect.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian sculptor and architect. He is most famous for his sculptures.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Gian Lorenzo Bernini ranks 3 out of 518. Before him are Antoni Gaudí, and Le Corbusier. After him are Vitruvius, Alvar Aalto, Imhotep, Mimar Sinan, Donato Bramante, Andrea Palladio, Leon Battista Alberti, Khufu, and Albert Speer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1598, Gian Lorenzo Bernini ranks 1. After him are Francisco de Zurbarán, Bonaventura Cavalieri, François Mansart, Eleonora Gonzaga, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Maarten Tromp, William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Johann Crüger, Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler, Michael van Langren, and Daniele Crespi. Among people deceased in 1680, Gian Lorenzo Bernini ranks 1. After him are Shivaji, François de La Rochefoucauld, Athanasius Kircher, Nicolas Fouquet, Raimondo Montecuccoli, Jan Swammerdam, Willem Claesz. Heda, Ferdinand Bol, Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine, Elisabeth of the Palatinate, and Emperor Go-Mizunoo.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gian Lorenzo Bernini ranks 55 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope John XXIII (1881), Fibonacci (1170), Pope Leo XIII (1810), Giacomo Casanova (1725), Pope Clement VII (1478), and Pope Gregory I (540). After him are Lucretius (-94), Enrico Fermi (1901), Saint Lucy (283), Umberto Eco (1932), Pope Pius XII (1876), and Saint Valentine (226).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Italy

Among architects born in Italy, Gian Lorenzo Bernini ranks 1. After him are Vitruvius (-75), Donato Bramante (1443), Andrea Palladio (1508), Leon Battista Alberti (1404), Renzo Piano (1937), Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1507), Michelozzo (1396), Arnolfo di Cambio (1240), Giacomo della Porta (1533), Guarino Guarini (1624), and Giuliano da Sangallo (1445).

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