BERNINI, GIOVANNI LORENZO Italian architect and sculptor, was born at Naples on Dec. 7, 1598, and died there on Nov. 28, 1680. He studied under his father and found a patron in Maffeo Barberini, afterwards Pope Urban VIII., whose palace he designed. He was put in charge of the building operations at St. Peter's, and was made director of im provements in the city. Bernini designed many of the early masterpieces of the baroque style in Rome, and exercised a great influence on contemporary architecture. Louis XIV., when he contemplated the restoration of the Louvre, invited him to submit designs but did not accept them. His most famous achieve ments are the colonnade of St. Peter's, the facade of the Bar berini palace, and the arsenal at Civita Vecchia. His best piece of sculpture is "Apollo and Daphne" in the Borghese Palace. Two works by him in England are a bust of Mr. Baker ( ?) in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and a marble group of Neptune and Glaucus at Brocklesbury Park, Lincs. For the gen eral character of his work as a sculptor see SCULPTURE.
See Stanislas Fraschetti, Il Bernini (Milan, 19oo).