Pietro Bernini

Pietro Bernini
Portrait of Bernini
Born
Pietro Bernini

6 May 1562
Died29 August 1629(1629-08-29) (aged 67)
Rome, Papal States, in present-day Italy
NationalityItalian
Known forSculpture
Notable workFontana della Barcaccia
MovementBaroque style

Pietro Bernini (6 May 1562 – 29 August 1629) was an Italian sculptor.[1] He was the father of one of the most famous artists of Baroque, Gian Lorenzo Bernini,[2] as well as the sculptor-architect Luigi Bernini.

  1. ^ Pietro Bernini MET Museum [dead link]
  2. ^ Bernini: His Life and His Rome, by Franco Mormando, 2011, p. 9