11.+Gian+Lorenzo+Bernini+(1598-1680)

**1. Birthplace **
Napoli, Italy

**2. Art movement (for example, the Renaissance) **
Baroque.

**3. Where did they study or who did they apprentice with? **
He began his career under his father, Pietro Bernini, a Florentine sculptor who moved to Rome.

**4. Who or what influenced their work? **
His first works were inspired by antique Hellenistic sculpture. Michelangelo, later, became his inspiration.

**5. What made their work unique? Describe their style of artwork. **
In many of his sculptures Bernini was able to adopt an expression that was passionate and full of energy and emotion.

**6. Is there any interesting story of their life you can share? **
In Rome, as a boy, Gianlorenzo's skill was soon noticed by Pope Paul V and the painter Annibale Carracci, and he soon gained the patronage of the papal nephew.

**7. Include a quote by or about the artist. **
There are two devices which can help the sculptor judge his work: one is not to see it for awhile. The other... is to look at his work through spectacles which will change its color or magnify it or diminish it, so as to distinguish it somehow to his eye, and make it look as though it were the work of another...

** 10. Most famous works (3 or more) **
 