Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian sculptor and architect who worked primarily in Rome. He is considered a leading figure in Baroque architecture.
Baroque Architecture: An architectural style originating in late 16th-century Italy that took Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical way to express emotion through form.
St Peter's Basilica: One of Bernini’s most famous works; it's an Italian Renaissance church in Vatican City, the papal enclave within the city of Rome.
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa: A renowned sculpture by Bernini, located in the Cornaro Chapel of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.
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