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GIAN LORENZO BERNINI, Bust of Pope Urban VIII, 1656–58

GIAN LORENZO BERNINI

Bust of Pope Urban VIII, 1656–58
Bronze, partially gilded
101.5 x 78 cm;
40 x 30 3/4 in.
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Provenance

Cardinal Antonio Barberini (1607–71), Rome, Palazzo Barberini ai Giubbonari, by 1671;
Cardinal Carlo Barberini (1630–1704), Rome, Palazzo Barberini alle Quattro Fontane, by 1688;
Barberini descendants;
Corsini collection by 1858, after the marriage between Anna Barberini Colonna and Tommaso Corsini, Florence;
Corsini descendants.

Exhibitions

Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 5 August – 26 October 2008; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, 25 November 2008–8 March 2009;

Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, I marmi vivi: Bernini e la nascita del ritratto barocco, 3 April–12 July 2009;

Rome, Palazzo Barberini, Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, L’immagine sovrana. Urbano VIII e i Barberini, 18 March30 July 2023, no. 10.

Literature

L. von Pastor, Storia dei Papi nel periodo della restaurazione cattolica e della guerra dei Trent’anni: Gregorio XV (1621-1623) ed Urbano VIII (1623-1644), Roma 1931, p. 25;

R. Wittkower, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The Sculptor of the Roman Baroque, London 1955, p. 186, no. 19 (4a);

V. Martinelli, I ritratti di pontefici di G. L. Bernini, Roma 1956, p. 31;

A. Bacchi and A.-L. Desmas, “Busti ritratto di Bernini. Repertorio,” in I marmi vivi, Firenze 2009, p. 346, no. A18b;

T. Montanari, “Bernini per Bernini: il secondo ‘Crocifisso’ monumentale con una digressione su Domenico Guidi,” in Prospettiva, 136, 2009, pp. 19-20;

A. Bacchi, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The Bust of Pope Urban VIII Barberini, Milano 2019;

M.G. Bernardini, Bernini. Catalogo delle Sculture, 2 voll., Torino 2022, p. 352, no. 107; S. Schütze, in M. Cicconi, F. Gennari Santori and S. Schütze (eds), L’immagine sovrana. Urbano VIII e i Barberini, exh. catalogue, Roma 2023, pp. 186-87.

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