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Bernini

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Bernini
Gian Lorenzo . 1598--1680, Italian painter, architect, and sculptor: the greatest exponent of the Italian baroque


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His soul palpitating with love of art, he painted the models who hung about the stairway of Bernini in the Piazza de Spagna, undaunted by their obvious picturesqueness; and his studio was full of canvases on which were portrayed moustachioed, large-eyed peasants in peaked hats, urchins in becoming rags, and women in bright petticoats.
 
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