In particular, the marble sculptures by Bernini on display are some of the very best.
Few today would question that Bernini was the guiding artistic genius of the 1600s.
Bernini had done other fountains, most famously the Fountain of the Triton at the Piazza Barberini.
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Though inevitably overshadowed by his contemporary, Bernini, Borromini has long been acknowledged as one of the period's greatest architects.
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In imagining this moment almost a century after Teresa of Avila's death in 1582, Bernini did the Spanish mystic no favour.
He is now cast as England's Borromini, too original for his time, while Wren and Vanbrugh play the role of Bernini, favored by the powers that be.
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BERNINI'S majestic sculpture of Saint Teresa in the Roman church of Santa Maria della Vittoria depicts her recurring vision of an angel plunging a golden spear into her heart.
Most important of all, the pope ordered one of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's masterworks, La Fontana del Quattro Fiume, or the Fountain of Four Rivers, for the centerpiece of the space.
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"Sire, do not talk to me of small projects, " said the Great Cham of baroque architecture, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, to Louis XIV after the Sun King lured him to Paris.
Bernini's central fountain draws everything, and everyone, together.
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The 10, 000-sq-ft exhibit, the largest Vatican show to come to North America, runs through 9 January and features works by Michelangelo and Bernini, tools used to work on the Sistine Chapel, and even a reliquary with the remains of Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
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From here it is a two-minute stroll to Piazza Navona, a square as big as a stadium (it was in fact built on the former Domitian's stadium, which dated from 86AD), and crowned by the Bernini's fantastical Baroque fountains, complete with rearing horses, muscular gods, and palm trees.
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