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, published in 1966 in Gian Lorenzo Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroque. [1] [2] [3]
Image | Title | Location | Year Type Material | No. Ref |
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The Goat Amalthea with the Infant Jupiter and a Faun | Galleria Borghese, Rome | 1609–1615 Sculpture Marble Height 44 cm (17.3 in) | 1 [4] | |
![]() | Bust of Giovanni Battista Santoni | Santa Prassede, Rome | 1613–1616 Sculpture Marble Life-size | 2 [4] |
![]() | A Faun Teased by Children | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | 1616–1617 Sculpture Marble Height 132 cm (52 in) | NA [5] |
![]() | The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence | Uffizi, Florence | 1617 Sculpture Marble 66 cm × 108 cm (26 in × 43 in) | 3 [6] |
![]() | Saint Sebastian | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid | 1617–1618 Sculpture Marble Under life-size | 4 [6] |
![]() | Bust of Giovanni Vigevano | Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome | 1617–1618 Sculpture Marble Life-size | 5 [7] |
Bust of Pope Paul V | Galleria Borghese, Rome | 1618 Sculpture Marble Height 35 cm (14 in) | 6 [8] | |
![]() | Damned Soul | Palace of Spain, Rome | 1619 Sculpture Marble Life-size | 7 [9] |
![]() | Blessed Soul | Palace of Spain, Rome | 1619 Sculpture Marble Life-size | 7 [9] |
Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius | Galleria Borghese, Rome | 1618–1619 Sculpture Marble Life-size | 8 [9] | |
![]() | Neptune and Triton | Victoria and Albert Museum, London | 1620 Sculpture Marble Height 182 cm (72 in) | 9 [10] |
![]() | The Rape of Proserpina | Galleria Borghese, Rome | 1621–1622 Sculpture Marble Height 225 cm (89 in) | 10 [11] |
Sleeping Hermaphroditus | The Louvre, Paris | 1620 Sculpture Marble Length 169 cm (67 in) | 11(1) [11] | |
![]() | Barberini Faun | Glyptothek, Munich | 1621–1622 Sculpture Marble Restoration | 11(2) [12] |
![]() | Ludovisi Ares | National Museum of Rome, Rome | 1622 Sculpture Marble Restoration | 11(3) [12] |
![]() | Bust of Pope Gregory XV | Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto | 1621 Sculpture Marble Height 64 cm (25 in) | 12 [13] |
![]() | Bust of Monsignor Pedro de Foix Montoya | Santa Maria di Monserrato, Rome | 1621 Sculpture Marble Life-size | 13 [14] |
![]() | Bust of Cardinal Escoubleau de Sourdis | Musée d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux | 1622 Sculpture Marble Life-size | 14 [15] |
![]() | Bust of Cardinal Roberto Bellarmine | Church of the Gesù, Rome | 1622 Sculpture Marble Life-size | 15 [15] |
Image, online [16] | Bust of Cardinal Giovanni Dolfin | Isola di San Michele, Venice | 1622 Sculpture Marble | 16 [15] |
Bust of Alessandro Peretti di Montalto | Kunsthalle, Hamburg | 1622 Sculpture Marble Height 88 cm (34.6 in) | 81(7) [17] | |
![]() | Bust of Carlo Antonio del Pozzo | National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh | 1622 Sculpture Marble Height 82 cm (32 in) | 81(8) [18] |
![]() | Self-Portrait as a Young Man (Bernini) | Galleria Borghese, Rome | 1623 Painting Oil on canvas 38 cm × 30 cm (15 in × 11.8 in) | NA [19] |
![]() | David | Galleria Borghese, Rome | 1623–1624 Sculpture Marble Height 170 cm (67 in) | 17 [20] |
![]() | Apollo and Daphne | Galleria Borghese, Rome | 1622–1625 Sculpture Marble Height 243 cm (96 in) | 18 [21] |
Bust of Antonio Cepparelli | San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, Rome | 1622 Sculpture Marble Height 70 cm (27.5 in) | NA [22] | |
![]() | Busts of Pope Urban VIII | National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa | 1632 Sculpture Marble Life-size | 19 [23] |
![]() | Saint Bibiana | Santa Bibiana, Rome | 1624–1626 Sculpture Marble Life-size | 20 [24] |
![]() | St. Peter's Baldachin | St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City | 1623–1634 Sculpture Bronze Height 20 m (66 ft), columns | 21 [25] |
![]() | Bust of Cardinal Melchior Klesl | Wiener Neustadt Cathedral, Wiener Neustadt | 1623 c. Sculpture Bronze | 22 [26] |
![]() | Two Angels in Sant'Agostino | Basilica of Sant'Agostino, Rome | 1626–1628 Sculpture Marble Life-size | 23 [27] |
![]() | Bust of Francesco Barberini | National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. | 1626 Sculpture Marble Height 80 cm (31 in) | 24(a) [28] |
![]() | Bust of Camilla Barbadoni | Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen | 1626 Sculpture Marble Height 60 cm (24 in) | 24(c) [29] |
![]() | Saint Andrew and Saint Thomas | National Gallery, London | 1627 Painting Oil on canvas Height: 59 cm (23.2 in) | NA |
![]() | Fontana della Barcaccia | Piazza di Spagna, Rome | 1627 Fountain Marble Width circa 10 m (33 ft) | 80(1) [30] |
Busts of Cardinals Agostino and Pietro Valier | Oratory, Seminario, Venice | 1629 Sculpture Marble Life-size | 25 [31] | |
Image, online [32] | Memorial to Carlo Barberini | Santa Maria in Ara Coeli, Rome | 1630 Sculpture Marble | 26 [32] |
![]() | Statue of Carlo Barberini | Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome | 1630 Sculpture Marble Life-size | 27 [33] |
![]() | Self-Portrait as a Mature Man (Bernini) | Uffizi, Florence | 1630–1635 Painting Oil on canvas 62 cm × 46 cm (24.4 in × 18.1 in) | NA [34] |
![]() | Saint Longinus | St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City | 1631–1638 Sculpture Marble Height 440 cm (174 in) | 28 [35] |
![]() | Balconies in the Pillars of the Dome of St. Peter's Basilica | St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City | 1633–1640 Sculpture Marble | 29 [36] |
![]() | Tomb of Pope Urban VIII | St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City | 1627–1647 Sculpture Golden bronze and marble | 30 [37] |
Charity with Four Children | Vatican Museums, Apostolic Palace, Vatican Museums | 1627–1628 Sculpture Terracotta Dimensions 39 cm (15 in) | 30 [38] | |
![]() | Portrait of Pope Urban VIII (Bernini) | Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome | 1632 Painting Oil on canvas Height: 67 cm (26.3 in) | NA |
![]() | Two Busts of Cardinal Scipione Borghese | Galleria Borghese, Rome | 1632 Sculpture Marble | 31 [39] |
![]() | Renovation of the Lateran Baptistery | Lateran Baptistery, Rome | 1633 Architecture | |
![]() | Fontana del Tritone | Piazza Barberini, Rome | 1642–1643 Fountain Travertine Monumental | 32 [40] |
Tomb of Countess Matilda of Tuscany | St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City | 1633–1637 Sculpture Marble Over life-size | 33 [41] | |
Image, online [42] | Pasce Oves Meas | St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City | 1639–1644 Sculpture Marble | 34 [43] |
![]() | Bust of Costanza Bonarelli | Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence | 1636-1637 Sculpture Marble Height 72 cm (28 in) | 35 [42] |
Images, online [44] | Busts of Paolo Giordano and Isabella Orsini | Castello Orsini-Odescalchi, Bracciano | 1635 Sculpture Marble | 36 [45] |
Image, online [46] | Memorial Inscription for Pope Urban VIII | Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Rome | 1636 Sculpture Marble | 37 [46] |
![]() | Statue of Pope Urban VIII | Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome | 1635–1640 Sculpture Marble Over life-size | 38 [47] |
Image, online [44] | Bust of King Charles I (Bernini) | Palace of Whitehall, London | 1635–1640 Sculpture Marble | 39 [48] |
Bust of Thomas Baker | Victoria and Albert Museum, London | 1638 Sculpture Marble Height 82 cm (32 in) | 40 [49] | |
![]() | Medusa | Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome | 1636 Sculpture Marble Over life-size | 41 [50] |
![]() | Portrait of a Boy | Galleria Borghese, Rome | 1638 Painting Oil on canvas | NA |
![]() | Bust of Cardinal Richelieu | The Louvre, Paris | 1640–1641 Sculpture Marble Life-size | 42 [51] |
![]() | Memorial to Alessandro Valtrini | San Lorenzo in Damaso, Rome | 1639 Sculpture Marble Life-size skeleton | 43 [52] |
Image, online [53] | Memorial to Ippolito Merenda | San Giacomo alla Lungara, Rome | 1636–1638 Sculpture Marble | 43 [54] |
![]() | Fontana delle Api | Piazza Barberini, Rome | 1644 Fountain Travertine | 80(3) [55] |
![]() | Christ Mocked (Bernini) | Private Collection, London | 1644–1655 Painting Oil on canvas Height: 25.8 cm (10.2 in) | NA |
Memorial to Maria Raggi | Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome | 1647–1653 Sculpture Gilt bronze and coloured marble Life-size portrait | 44 [56] | |
![]() | Confessio of Santa Francesca Romana | Santa Francesca Romana, Rome | 1638–1649 Sculpture Marble | 45 [57] [58] |
![]() | Raimondi Chapel | San Pietro in Montorio, Rome | 1638–1648 Sculpture Gilt bronze relief | 46 [59] |
Decoration of Chapels and Nave of St. Peter's Basilica | St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City | 1645–1648 Sculpture Marble | 47 [60] | |
![]() | Ecstasy of Saint Teresa | Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome | 1647–1652 Sculpture Marble Life-size figures | 48 [61] |
![]() | Cornaro-Kapelle (in German) | Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome | 1647–1652 Sculpture Marble Life-size figures | 48 [61] |
Truth Unveiled by Time | Galleria Borghese, Rome | 1645–1652 Sculpture Marble Height 280 cm (110 in) | 49 [62] | |
![]() | Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi | Piazza Navona, Rome | 1648–1651 Fountain Travertine and marble | 50 [63] |
![]() | Busts of Pope Innocent X - First version | Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome | 1650 Sculpture Marble | 51a [64] |
![]() | Busts of Pope Innocent X - Second version | Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome | 1650 Sculpture Marble | 51b |
Noli Me Tangere | Santi Domenico e Sisto, Rome | 1650 Sculpture Marble Life-size figures | 52 [65] | |
Image, online [66] | Virgin and Child | Saint-Joseph-des-Carmes, Paris | 1656–1663 Sculpture Marble | 53 [67] |
![]() | Bust of Francesco I d'Este | Galleria Estense, Modena | 1650–1651 Sculpture Marble Height 100 cm (39 in) | 54 [66] |
![]() | Fontana del Moro | Piazza Navona, Rome | 1653–1654 Fountain Marble | 55 [68] |
Tomb of Cardinal Domenico Pimentel | Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome | 1653 Sculpture Marble Over life-size figures | 56 [69] | |
![]() | Crucified Christ (Bernini) | Royal Collections Gallery, Madrid | 1655 Sculpture Bronze (233 x 166 cm) | 57 [70] |
![]() | Corpus | Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto | 1650 Sculpture Bronze Life-size | 57 [70] |
![]() | Dead Christ on the Cross | Walters Art Museum, Baltimore | 1657–1661 Sculpture Gilt bronze corpus on bronze cross Likely a later cast | 57 [70] |
![]() | Decoration of Santa Maria del Popolo | Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome | 1655 Sculpture Stucco and marble | 58 [71] |
Daniel and the Lion | Chigi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome | 1655-1656 Sculpture Marble | 58 [71] | |
![]() | Habakkuk and the Angel | Chigi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome | 1656-1661 Sculpture Marble Over life-size | 58 [71] |
![]() | Lamp with Crown and Cherubs by Peter Verpoorten | Chigi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome | 1656-1657 Sculpture Bronze | NA [72] |
![]() | Putti Lifting a Large Drapery | Sala Ducale (in German), Vatican City | 1656–1657 Sculpture Stucco | 59 [73] |
Santa Barbara (in Italian) | Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, Rieti (in Italian) | 1655–1657 Sculpture Marble | 60 [74] | |
Chair of Saint Peter | St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City | 1657–1666 Sculpture Marble, bronze, white and golden stucco | 61 [75] | |
![]() | Collegiata di San Tommaso da Villanova (in Italian) | Castel Gandolfo | 1658–1661 Architecture, sculpture Marble | 62(1) [76] |
![]() | Santa Maria Assunta | Ariccia | 1662–1664 Architecture, sculpture Marble | 62 (2) [76] |
![]() | Sant'Andrea al Quirinale | Sant'Andrea al Quirinale, Rome | 1658–1670 Architecture, sculpture Marble | 62(3) [76] |
![]() | Saint Jerome | Chigi Chapel, Siena Cathedral, Siena | 1659–1663 Sculpture Marble Over life-size | 63 [77] |
![]() | Mary Magdalen | Chigi Chapel, Siena Cathedral, Siena | 1659–1663 Sculpture Marble Over life-size | 63 [77] |
Statue of Alexander VII (designed by Bernini, sculpted by Antonio Raggi) | Siena Cathedral, Siena | 1661–1663 Sculpture Marble and gilded bronze | 64 [78] | |
Image, online [79] | Busts of Pope Alexander VII | 1655–1667 Sculpture Marble and gilded bronze | 65 [80] | |
![]() | Cappella Da Sylva | Sant'Isidoro a Capo le Case, Rome | 1663 Sculpture Marble and gilded bronze | 66 [81] |
![]() | Statues on the colonnades of Saint Peter's Square | St. Peter's Square, Vatican City | 1656–1671 Sculpture Travertine Monumental | 67 [82] |
![]() | Scala Regia | Apostolic Palace, Vatican City | 1663–1666 Sculpture Marble with painted stucco drapery | 68 [83] |
![]() | The Visitation | Santuario di Nostra Signora della Misericordia (in Italian), Savona | 1665 Sculpture Marble relief Height 300 cm (117 in) | 69 [84] |
![]() | Bust of Louis XIV | Musée National de Versailles, Versailles | 1665 Sculpture Marble Height 80 cm (31 in) | 70 [85] |
![]() | Statue of King Philip IV of Spain | Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome | 1666 Sculpture Bronze Over life-size | NA |
Image, online [86] | Portrait of a Man | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | 1670s Sculpture Marble | NA [87] |
![]() | Elephant and Obelisk | Piazza di Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome | 1667 Sculpture Marble Life-size, elephant | 71 [88] |
![]() | List of angels of Ponte Sant'Angelo | Ponte Sant'Angelo, Rome | 1667–1669 Sculpture Marble Over life-size | 72 [89] |
![]() | Angel with the Crown of Thorns | Sant'Andrea delle Fratte, Rome | 1667–1669 Sculpture Marble Over life-size | 72 [89] |
![]() | Angel with the Superscription | Sant'Andrea delle Fratte, Rome | 1667–1669 Sculpture Marble Over life-size | 72 [89] |
![]() | The Vision of Constantine | Apostolic Palace, Vatican City | 1654–1670 Sculpture Marble Over life-size | 73 [90] |
Equestrian Statue of King Louis XIV | Palace of Versailles, Versailles | 1669–1684 Sculpture Marble Monumental | 74 [91] | |
Bust of Gabriele Fonseca | San Lorenzo in Lucina, Rome | 1668–1675 Sculpture Marble Over life-size | 75 [92] | |
![]() | Blessed Ludovica Albertoni | Altieri Chapel, San Francesco a Ripa, Rome | 1671–1674 Sculpture Marble Over life-size | 76 [93] |
![]() | Tomb of Pope Alexander VII | St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City | 1671–1678 Sculpture Marble and gilded bronze Over life-size | 77 [94] |
Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament | St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City | 1673–1675 Sculpture Gilt bronze | 78 [95] | |
Statue of Pope Clement X | Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome | 1676 Sculpture Marble Height 105 cm (41 in) | 78a [96] | |
![]() | Bust of the Saviour | San Sebastiano fuori le mura, Rome | 1679 Sculpture Marble Over life-size | 79 [97] |