List of works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

The following is a list of works of sculpture, architecture, and painting by the Italian Baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The numbering follows Rudolph Wittkower's Catalogue, first published in 1955 in Gian Lorenzo Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroque.^[1][2][3]

Works

No.	Title	Year	Type	Material	Location	Image	Ref
1	The Goat Amalthea with the Infant Jupiter and a Faun	1609–15	Sculpture	Marble	Galleria Borghese, Rome	Height 44 cm (17.3 in)	[4]
2	Bust of Giovanni Battista Santoni	1613–16	Sculpture	Marble	Santa Prassede, Rome	Life-size	[4]
NA	A Faun Teased by Children	1616–17	Sculpture	Marble	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	Height 132 cm (52 in)	[5]
3	Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence	1617	Sculpture	Marble	Uffizi, Florence	66 cm × 108 cm (26 in × 43 in)	[4]
4	Saint Sebastian	1617–18	Sculpture	Marble	Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid	Under life-size	[6]
5	Bust of Giovanni Vigevano	1617–18	Sculpture	Marble	Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome	Life-size	[7]
6	Bust of Pope Paul V	1618	Sculpture	Marble	Galleria Borghese, Rome	Height 35 cm (14 in)	[8]
7	Damned Soul	1619	Sculpture	Marble	Palazzo di Spagna, Rome	Life-size	[8]
7	Blessed Soul	1619	Sculpture	Marble	Palazzo di Spagna, Rome	Life-size	[8]
8	Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius	1618–19	Sculpture	Marble	Galleria Borghese, Rome	Life-size	[9]
9	Neptune and Triton	1620	Sculpture	Marble	Victoria and Albert Museum, London	Height 182 cm (72 in)	[10]
10	The Rape of Proserpina	1621–22	Sculpture	Marble	Galleria Borghese, Rome	Height 225 cm (89 in)	[11]
11 (1)	Sleeping Hermaphroditus	1620	Sculpture	Marble	The Louvre, Paris	Length 169 cm (67 in)	[12]
11 (2)	Barberini Fawn	1621–22	Sculpture	Marble	Glyptothek, Munich	Restoration	[13]
11 (3)	Ares Ludovisi	1622	Sculpture	Marble	National Museum of Rome, Rome	Restoration	[13]
12	Bust of Pope Gregory XV	1621	Sculpture	Marble	Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto	Height 64 cm (25 in)	[14]
13	Bust of Monsignor Pedro de Foix Montoya	1621	Sculpture	Marble	Santa Maria di Monserrato, Rome	Life-size	[15]
14	Bust of Cardinal Escoubleau de Sourdis	1622	Sculpture	Marble	Church of St. Bruno, Bordeaux	Life-size	[16]
15	Bust of Cardinal Roberto Bellarmine	1622	Sculpture	Marble	Church of the Gesù, Rome	Life-size	[17]
16	Bust of Cardinal Giovanni Dolfin	1622	Sculpture	Marble	Isola di San Michele, Venice		[18]
81 (7)	Bust of Alessandro Peretti di Montalto	1622	Sculpture	Marble	Kunsthalle, Hamburg		[19]
81 (8)	Bust of Carlo Antonio del Pozzo	1622	Sculpture	Marble	National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh	Height 82 cm (32 in)	[19]
NA	Self-Portrait as a Young Man	1623	Painting	Oil on canvas	Galleria Borghese, Rome	38 cm × 30 cm (15 in × 11.8 in)	[20]
17	David	1623–24	Sculpture	Marble	Galleria Borghese, Rome	38 cm × 30 cm (15 in × 11.8 in)	[21]
18	Apollo and Daphne	1622–25	Sculpture	Marble	Galleria Borghese, Rome	Height 243 cm (96 in)	[22]
NA	Bust of Antonio Cepparelli	1622	Sculpture	Marble	San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, Rome		[23]
19	Bust of Pope Urban VIII	1632	Sculpture	Marble	Palazzo Barberini, Rome	Life-size	[24]
20	Saint Bibiana	1624–26	Sculpture	Marble	Santa Bibiana, Rome	Life-size	[25]
21	St. Peter's Baldachin	1623–34	Sculpture	Bronze	St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City	Height 20 m (66 ft), columns	[26]
22	Bust of Cardinal Melchior Klesl	1623 c.	Sculpture	Bronze	Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary, Wiener Neustadt		[27]
23	Two Angels in Sant'Agostino	1626–28	Sculpture	Marble	Basilica of Sant'Agostino, Rome	Life-size	[28]
24 (a)	Bust of Francesco Barberini	1626	Sculpture	Marble	National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.	Height 80 cm (31 in)	[28]
24 (c)	Bust of Camilla Barbadoni	1626	Sculpture	Marble	Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen	Height 60 cm (24 in)	[29]
NA	Saint Andrew and Saint Thomas	1627	Painting	Oil on canvas	National Gallery, London
80 (1)	Fontana della Barcaccia	1627	Fountain	Marble	Piazza di Spagna, Rome		[30]
25	Busts of Cardinals Agostino and Pietro Valier	1629	Sculpture	Marble	Oratory, Seminario, Venice	Agostino Valier Pietro Valier	[31]
26	Memorial for Carlo Barberini	1630	Sculpture	Marble	St. Maria in Aracoeli, Rome		[32]
27	Head of the Memorial Statue for Carlo Barberini	1630	Sculpture	Marble	Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome	Life-size	[33]
NA	Self-Portrait as a Mature Man	1630–35	Painting	Oil on canvas	Uffizi, Florence	62 cm × 46 cm (24.4 in × 18.1 in)	[34]
28	Saint Longinus	1631–38	Sculpture	Marble	St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City	Height 440 cm (174 in)	[35]
29	Balconies in the Pillars of the Dome of St. Peter's Basilica	1633–40	Sculpture	Marble	St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City		[36]
30	Tomb of Pope Urban VIII	1627–47	Sculpture	Golden bronze and marble	St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City		[37]
30	Charity with Four Children	1627–28	Sculpture	Terracotta	Vatican Museums, Apostolic Palace, Vatican City		[37]
NA	Portrait of Pope Urban VIII	1632	Painting	Oil on canvas	Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
31	Two Busts of Cardinal Scipione Borghese	1632	Sculpture	Marble	Galleria Borghese, Rome	Height 78 cm (31 in) Height 78 cm (31 in)	[38]
32	Fontana del Tritone	1624–43	Fountain	Travertine	Piazza Barberini, Rome	Monumental	[39]
33	Tomb of Countess Matilda of Tuscany	1633–37	Sculpture	Marble	St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City	Over life-size	[40]
34	Pasce Oves Meas	1639–44	Sculpture	Marble	St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City		[41]
35	Bust of Costanza Bonarelli	1635	Sculpture	Marble	Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence	Height 72 cm (28 in)	[42]
36	Busts of Paolo Giordano II Orsini and his wife Isabella Orsini	1635	Sculpture	Marble	Castello Orsini-Odescalchi, Bracciano		[43]
37	Marble Insription for Pope Urban VIII	1636	Sculpture	Marble	Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Rome		[44]
38	Memorial Statue of Pope Urban VIII	1635–40	Sculpture	Marble	Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome	Monumental	[45]
39	Bust of King Charles	1635–40	Sculpture	Marble	Palace of Whitehall, London		[45]
40	Bust of Thomas Baker	1638	Sculpture	Marble	Victoria and Albert Museum, London	Height 82 cm (32 in)	[46]
41	Medusa	1636	Sculpture	Marble	Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome	Over life-size	[47]
NA	Portrait of a Boy	1638	Painting	Oil on canvas	Galleria Borghese, Rome
42	Bust of Cardinal Richilieu	1640–41	Sculpture	Marble	The Louvre, Paris	Life-size	[48]
43	Memorial to Alessandro Valtrini	1639	Sculpture	Marble	San Lorenzo in Damaso, Rome		[49]
43	Memorial to Ippolito Merenda	1636–38	Sculpture	Marble	San Giacomo alla Lungara, Rome		[49]
80 (3)	Fontana delle Api	1644	Fountain	Travertine	Piazza Barberini, Rome		[30]
NA	Christ Mocked	1644–55	Painting	Oil on canvas	Private Collection, London
44	Memorial to Maria Raggi	1647–53	Sculpture	Gilt bronze and coloured marble	Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome	Life-size portrait	[50]
45	Saint Francesca Romana	1644–49	Sculpture	Gilt bronze relief	Santa Maria Nuova, Rome		[51]
46	Raimondi Chapel	1638–48	Sculpture	Gilt bronze relief	San Pietro in Montorio, Rome		[52]
47	Decoration of Chapels and Nave of St. Peter's Basilica	1645–48	Sculpture	Marble	St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City		[53]
48	Ecstasy of Saint Teresa	1647–52	Sculpture	Marble	Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome	Life-size figures	[54]
48	Loggia of the Founders	1647–52	Sculpture	Marble	Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome	Life-size figures	[54]
49	Truth Unveiled by Time	1645–52	Sculpture	Marble	Galleria Borghese, Rome	Height 280 cm (110 in)	[55]
50	Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi	1648–51	Fountain	Travertine and marble	Piazza Navona, Rome		[56]
51	Busts of Pope Innocent X	1650	Sculpture	Marble	Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome		[57]
52	Noli Me Tangere	1650	Sculpture	Marble	Santi Domenico e Sisto, Rome	Life-size figures	[58]
53	Virgin and Child	1656–63	Sculpture	Marble	St. Joseph des Carmes, Paris		[59]
54	Bust of Francesco I d'Este	1650–51	Sculpture	Marble	Galleria Estense, Modena	Height 100 cm (39 in)	[59]
55	Fontana del Moro	1653–54	Fountain	Marble	Piazza Navona, Rome		[60]
56	Tomb of Cardinal Domenico Pimentel	1653	Sculpture	Marble	Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome	Over life-size figures	[61]
57	Bronze Crosses	1655	Sculpture	Bronze (233 x 166 cm)	San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain		[62]
57	Corpus	1650	Sculpture	Bronze	Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto		[62]
57	Altar Cross	1657–61	Sculpture	Gilt bronze corpus on bronze cross	St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City		[62]
58	Decoration of Santa Maria del Popolo	1650	Sculpture	Marble	Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome		[63]
58	Daniel and the Lion	1655	Sculpture	Marble	Chigi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome		[63]
58	Habakkuk and the Angel	1655	Sculpture	Marble	Chigi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome	Over life-size	[63]
59	Putti Lifting a Large Drapery	1656–57	Sculpture	Stucco	Sala Ducale, Vatican City		[64]
60	Saint Barbara	1655–57	Sculpture	Marble	Sala Ducale, Vatican City		[65]
61	Chair of Saint Peter	1657–66	Sculpture	Marble, bronze, white and golden stucco	St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City		[66]
62 (1)	Church of St. Thomas of Villanova	1658–61	Architecture, sculpture	Marble	Castel Gandolfo		[67]
62 (2)	Church of the Assunta	1662–64	Architecture, sculpture	Marble	Ariccia		[67]
62 (3)	Sant'Andrea al Quirinale	1658–70	Architecture, sculpture	Marble	Sant'Andrea al Quirinale, Rome		[67]
63	Saint Jerome	1659–63	Sculpture	Marble	Chigi Chapel, Siena Cathedral, Siena	Over life-size	[68]
63	Mary Magdalen	1659–63	Sculpture	Marble	Chigi Chapel, Siena Cathedral, Siena	Over life-size	[68]
64	Memorial Statue of Pope Alexander VII (designed by Bernini, sculpted by Antonio Raggi)	1661–63	Sculpture	Marble and gilded bronze	Siena Cathedral, Siena		[69]
65	Busts of Pope Alexander VII	1655–67	Sculpture	Marble and gilded bronze			[70]
66	Memorial Chapel of the De Silva Family	1663	Sculpture	Marble and gilded bronze	St. Isidores College, Rome		[71]
67	Statues Over the Colonnades of St. Peter's Square	1656–71	Sculpture	Travertine	St. Peter's Square, Vatican City	Monumental	[72]
68	Scala Regia	1663–66	Sculpture	Marble with painted stucco drapery	Scala Regia, Apostolic Palace, Vatican City		[73]
69	The Visitation	1665	Sculpture	Marble relief	Siri Chapel, Savona		[74]
70	Bust of Louis XIV	1665	Sculpture	Marble	Musée National de Versailles, Versailles	Height 80 cm (31 in)	[75]
NA	Portrait of an Unknown Gentleman	16705	Sculpture	Marble	Los Angeles County Museum of Art		[76]
71	Elephant and Obelisk	1667	Sculpture	Marble	Piazza di Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome	Life-size, elephant	[77]
72	Angels of Ponte Sant'Angelo	1667–69	Sculpture	Marble	Ponte Sant'Angelo, Rome	Over life-size	[78]
72	Angel with the Crown of Thorns	1667–69	Sculpture	Marble	Sant'Andrea delle Fratte, Rome	Over life-size	[78]
72	Angel with the Superscription	1667–69	Sculpture	Marble	Sant'Andrea delle Fratte, Rome	Over life-size	[78]
73	The Vision of Constantine	1654–70	Sculpture	Marble	Apostolic Palace, Vatican City		[79]
74	Equestrian Statue of King Louis XIV	1669–84	Sculpture	Marble	Palace of Versailles, Versailles	Monumental	[80]
75	Bust of Gabriele Fonseca	1668–75	Sculpture	Marble	San Lorenzo in Lucina, Rome	Over life-size	[81]
76	Blessed Ludovica Albertoni	1671–74	Sculpture	Marble	Altieri Chapel, San Francesco a Ripa, Rome	Over life-size	[82]
77	Tomb of Pope Alexander VII	1671–78	Sculpture	Marble and gilded bronze	St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City	Over life-size	[83]
78	Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament	1673–75	Sculpture	Gilt bronze	St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City		[84]
78a	Statue of Pope Clement X	1676	Sculpture	Marble	Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome	Height 105 cm (41 in)	[84]
79	Salvator Mundi	1679	Sculpture	Marble	San Sebastiano fuori le mura, Rome	Over life-size	[85]

References

Citations

1. Wittkower 1955, pp. 231–305.
2. Mormando 2011, pp. 391–429.
3. Avery 1997, pp. 286–287.
4. Wittkower 1955, p. 231.
5. Avery 1997, p. 26.
6. Wittkower 1955, pp. 231–232.
7. Wittkower 1955, p. 232.
8. Wittkower 1955, p. 233.
9. Wittkower 1955, pp. 233–234.
10. Wittkower 1955, pp. 234–235.
11. Wittkower 1955, p. 235.
12. Wittkower 1955, pp. 235–236.
13. Wittkower 1955, p. 236.
14. Wittkower 1955, pp. 236–237.
15. Wittkower 1955, pp. 237–238.
16. Wittkower 1955, p. 238.
17. Wittkower 1955, pp. 238–239.
18. Wittkower 1955, p. 239.
19. Wittkower 1955, pp. 301–302.
20. Zanella 1998, p. 16.
21. Wittkower 1955, pp. 239–240.
22. Wittkower 1955, p. 240.
23. Avery 1997, p. 34.
24. Wittkower 1955, pp. 240–241.
25. Wittkower 1955, p. 244.
26. Wittkower 1955, pp. 244–245.
27. Wittkower 1955, pp. 245–246.
28. Wittkower 1955, p. 246.
29. Wittkower 1955, pp. 247–248.
30. Wittkower 1955, pp. 299–300.
31. Wittkower 1955, p. 249.
32. Wittkower 1955, pp. 249–250.
33. Wittkower 1955, p. 250.
34. Zanella 1998, p. 40.
35. Wittkower 1955, pp. 250–251.
36. Wittkower 1955, pp. 251–252.
37. Wittkower 1955, pp. 252–253.
38. Wittkower 1955, p. 253.
39. Wittkower 1955, pp. 253–254.
40. Wittkower 1955, pp. 254–255.
41. Wittkower 1955, pp. 255–256.
42. Wittkower 1955, p. 256.
43. Wittkower 1955, pp. 256–257.
44. Wittkower 1955, pp. 257–258.
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47. Wittkower 1955, pp. 259–260.
48. Wittkower 1955, pp. 260–261.
49. Wittkower 1955, pp. 261–262.
50. Wittkower 1955, pp. 262–263.
51. Wittkower 1955, p. 263.
52. Wittkower 1955, pp. 263–265.
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54. Wittkower 1955, pp. 265–268.
55. Wittkower 1955, p. 268.
56. Wittkower 1955, pp. 268–270.
57. Wittkower 1955, pp. 270–271.
58. Wittkower 1955, pp. 271–272.
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60. Wittkower 1955, pp. 272–273.
61. Wittkower 1955, pp. 273–274.
62. Wittkower 1955, pp. 274–276.
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64. Wittkower 1955, p. 277.
65. Wittkower 1955, pp. 277–278.
66. Wittkower 1955, pp. 278–280.
67. Wittkower 1955, pp. 280–282.
68. Wittkower 1955, p. 282.
69. Wittkower 1955, pp. 282–283.
70. Wittkower 1955, p. 283.
71. Wittkower 1955, p. 284.
72. Wittkower 1955, pp. 284–285.
73. Wittkower 1955, pp. 285–286.
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75. Wittkower 1955, pp. 286–287.
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78. Wittkower 1955, pp. 287–291.
79. Wittkower 1955, pp. 291–292.
80. Wittkower 1955, pp. 293–294.
81. Wittkower 1955, p. 294.
82. Wittkower 1955, pp. 294–295.
83. Wittkower 1955, pp. 295–297.
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Bibliography

• Avery, Charles (1997). Bernini: Genius of the Baroque. London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 9780500286333.
• Baldinucci, Filippo (2006) [1682]. The Life of Bernini. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 9780271730769.
• Bernini, Domenico (2011) [1713]. The Life of Giano Lorenzo Bernini. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 9780271037486.
• Mormando, Franco (2011). Bernini: His Life and His Rome. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226538525.
• Wittkower, Rudolf (1955). Gian Lorenzo Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroque. London: Phaidon Press. ISBN 9780714837154.
• Zanella, Andrea, ed. (1998). Bernini: All His Works from All Over the World. Rome: Fratelli Palombi Editori. ISBN 9788876217807.

External links

• Web Gallery of Art