The Bust of Louis XIV is a marble portrait by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It was created in the year 1665 during Bernini's visit to Paris. This sculptural portrait of Louis XIV of France …

The Equestrian Statue of King Louis XIV is a sculpture designed and partially executed by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Bernini first discussed the project while in France in the mid …

The Bust of Louis XIV was created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who was an Italian artist. The piece was made in 1665 when the artist visited Paris for a diplomatic exchange. He was to create …

Oct 11, 2022 · In this article, we’ll take a closer at some of the most interesting facts about the Bust of Louis XIV, one of the few masterpieces by Bernini that he didn’t produce in his beloved …

Wittkower, Rudolf, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the Sculptor of the Roman Baroque, London, 1966. Bernini's Louis XIV Equestrian: A Closer Examination of Its Fortunes at Versailles Robert W. …

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was invited to France by Louis XIV in 1665. Told to accompany him and act as interpreter, Paul Fréart de Chantelou wrote down everything the great Roman...

Jul 29, 2024 · English: The Journal written by Paul Fréart de Chantelou, which records Bernini's visit to Paris in 1665, describes in detail the gestation of his marble bust of Louis XIV, which …

It only took five months for sculptor Bernini to create the bust of Louis XIV during his stay in Paris in 1665. The Italian artist had the opportunity to meet the King no fewer than five...

This quote from John Rupert Martin's Baroque (142) encapsulates Bernini's conception--a portrait not of a mere man but a symbol of a divinely ordained, absolutist monarch.

Bernini’s bust of Louis XIV is not, perhaps, his greatest work. Some people would award the prize to ‘The Ecstasy of St Teresa’, showing her pierced with the angel’s arrow of love, in the altar of …