US EditionBernini and the pope who promoted him celebrated as Vatican marks 400 years of St. Peter's Basilica
The exhibition showcases rare loans and reunites works highlighting Bernini’s rise under Pope Urban VIII’s patronage during a pivotal two-decade collaboration.
- On Thursday, Palazzo Barberini opens Bernini and the Barberini, a Rome exhibition celebrating the patron-artist bond that made Gian Lorenzo Bernini a leading Baroque figure, running through June 14.
- This year the Holy See marks the 400th anniversary of St. Peter's consecration, and Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli said Urban relied on culture and top artists in Vatican initiatives.
- The exhibition features loans from museums and private collections, displaying sculptures, sketches, busts and paintings, including a Vatican loan of Bernini's bronze casing model for St. Peter's throne.
- The exhibition limits itself to Bernini's two-decade work with Urban, excluding later pieces, while co-curator Maurizia Cicconi notes Bernini helped Urban assert Church primacy amid criticism and Galileo's pardon refusal.
- The baldacchino canopy was restored last year for the Vatican's 2025 Holy Year, and later popes continued to commission Bernini after Urban's death.
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Bernini and the pope who promoted him celebrated as Vatican marks 400 years of St. Peter’s Basilica
A new exhibition in Rome is celebrating one of the most important patron-artist relationships in European history, one that propelled a young prodigy named Gian Lorenzo Bernini into a towering figure of Baroque art and architecture.
A long-awaited exhibition of Bernini's works will open in Rome on February 12th. Until June 14th, Palazzo Barberini will primarily showcase works created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) for his patron, Maffeo Barberini (1568-1644). The Neapolitan sculptor's most important benefactor was the future Pope Urban VIII. Although Bernini was not trained as an architect, the Pope entrusted him in 1629 with completing the construction of St. Peter's …
Bernini and the Hand of Pope Barberini: the Alliance that Revolutionized the Baroque Revives in Rome
On the same day of his election, Pope Urban VIII sent for his favorite sculptor, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. His alliance with that young genius would end up supporting the Baroque with works loaded with dramatism that now, four centuries later, have been compiled in the Roman palace of the Barberini dynasty. The Bernini entrance and the hand of Pope Barberini: the alliance that revolutionized the Baroque revival in Rome was first published in the Dig…
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