Definition of Bernini

1. Noun. Italian sculptor and architect of the baroque period in Italy; designed many churches and chapels and tombs and fountains (1598-1680).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Bernini

Bernays' sponge
Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist
Berne
Bernese
Bernese Oberland
Bernese mountain dog
Bernfeld
Bernhard Riemann
Bernhardt
Bernhardt's disease
Bernhardt's formula
Bernhardt-Roth syndrome
Bernheim's syndrome
Bernice
Bernie
Bernini (current term)
Bernoulli
Bernoulli's law
Bernoulli's principle
Bernoulli's theorem
Bernoulli distribution
Bernoulli effect
Bernoulli trial
Bernstein
Bernstein mode
Bernstein test
Bernsteinian
Berovo
Berra
Berry

Literary usage of Bernini

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Bernini, DOMENICO, son of the famous artist Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, ... Bernini, GIOVANNI LORENZO, one of the most vigorous and fertile of Italian ..."

2. The Arts and Artists: Or Anecdotes & Relics, of the Schools of Painting by James Elmes (1825)
"Maffeo Barberini; ma assai maggiore e la nostra, che il Caval. Bernini viva nel nostro pontificato." ". It a singular piece of good fortune for you, Bernini ..."

3. A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and by William Tooke, William Beloe, Robert Nares (1798)
"In 1665, Bernini was invited to France, to work in the Louvre ; and here he executed a buft of the ... Bernini died at Rome, the Spth of November, 1680. ..."

4. The Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Comprising Original Anecdotes of Many by James Northcote (1819)
"This brings to my remembrance the anecdote told of Bernini, the famous sculptor, that Charles the First having a desire that Bernini should make his bust, ..."

5. Annals of the Artists of Spain by William Stirling Maxwell (1891)
"Beautiful fountains, palaces, and churches, rising in all quarters of the city, displayed the architectural genius of Bernini, the friend of Popes, ..."

6. Old Paris: Its Court and Literary Salons by Catherine Charlotte Jackson (1880)
"—Perrault, Mansard, and Bernini.—Le Chateau de Maisons.— Bernini Returns to Rome.—The Louvre and its Doctor.—The Louvre Abandoned.—" Un Favori sans Merite. ..."

7. Italy, Rome and Naples by Hippolyte Taine, John Durand (1872)
"The first is Santa Maria del Popolo, a church of the fifteenth century, modernised by Bernini, but still impressive. Wide arcades in rows separate the great ..."

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