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All the Berninis in Rome

A cheat sheet list of where to find Gianlorenzo Bernini's top sculptures, architecture, and paintings (yes, he painted) in Rome

Sights By Category
• Top Sights
• Museums
• Ancient sites / ruins
• Churches
• Reid's list
• Free sights
• Michelangelo's Rome
• Bernini's Rome
• Caravaggio's Rome Piazza Navona (Fountain of the Four Rivers)
Galleria Borghese (many amazing early sculptures, including David, Apollo and Daphne, the Rape of Persephone, and (along with dad, Pietro Bernini) Aeneas and Anchises)
Santa Maria del Popolo (many interior renovations, but particularly the sculptures and inlaid stonework in the Chigi chapel)
Ponte Sant'Angelo (designs for the statues lining the bridge)
Santa Maria della Vittoria (St. Theresa in Ecstasy)
San Francesco a Ripa (Beata Ludovica in Ecstasy)
Santa Maria sopra Minerva (the baby elephant statue out front, and a bust of Giovanni Vigevano on his tomb between the third and fourth chapels on the left aisle)
Capitoline Museums (marble head of Medusa and statue of Urban VIII in Palazzo dei Conservatori)
Palazzo Barberini (paintings: David with the Head of Goliath and Portrait of Urban VIII)
Spansh Steps (young Gianlorenzo probably helped his father, Pietro Bernini, craft the Barcaccia fountain)
Galleria Doria Pamphilj (bust of Innocent X)
Sant'Agostino (design of second chapel on left aisle)
Roman Forum (The confessio inside the church of Santa Francesca Romana)


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This material was last updated January 2007. All information was accurate at the time.

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