Angels and Attributes

Recumbent Romans

Gian Lorenzo Bernini: St. Theresa in Ecstasy 1647-52 (Santa Maria della Vittoria)

Fili[ppo Albacini: Dying Achilles 1854 (Accademia di San Luca)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Sant' Andrea al Quirinale, Rome 1658-70

Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Four Rivers Fountain, Piazza Navona, Rome

Piazza di Spagna, Rome

More Bernini Figures

Figures from the Four Rivers: Bernini in Piazza Navona

Marking the boundary: two city gates

City gates present the opportunity for announcing the urban ideal to the surrounding chaos, both in preparation for entry into the city, as at the Porta Borsari in Verona (above), and in preparation for departure, as at Bernini's decoration of the Porta del Popolo in Rome (below).

Salomonic Columns

Two examples of this typically baroque architectural elements, below in bronze and at a colossal scale in Bernini's baldachino at San Pietro in Rome, and above at a rather more delicate scale in softly carved local stone at Sant' Irene in Lecce.