Bust of Alessandro Peretti di Montalto | |
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Artist | Gian Lorenzo Bernini |
Year | 1622 |
Catalogue | 81 (7) |
Type | Sculpture |
Medium | Marble |
Dimensions | Life-size |
Location | Kunsthalle, Hamburg |
53°33′18″N 10°0′11.88″E / 53.55500°N 10.0033000°E | |
Preceded by | Bust of Cardinal Roberto Bellarmine |
Followed by | Bust of Carlo Antonio del Pozzo |
The Bust of Alessandro Peretti di Montalto is a portrait sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Executed in 1622 and 1623, the sculpture is now in the Kunsthalle Hamburg, in Germany. Although possibly mentioned by one of Bernini's early biographers, the bust had been considered lost and therefore makes no appearance in Rudolf Wittkower's catalogue of Bernini’s sculptures of 1955. However, the bust was identified in the 1980s and is now considered an authentic work by Bernini.[1]