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A portrait of Gianlorenzo Bernini (by Giovanni Battista Gaulli)

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English: Giovanni Battista Gaulli, called Il Baciccio

Portrait of Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598 - 1680)

oil on canvas

98.2 x 73.7 cm.; 38 3/4 x 29 in.

A later copy after the portrait of Bernini by Gaulli, of circa 1675, today in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.1 The original painting was the model for the engraved frontispiece of Baldinucci's biography of Bernini and for the artist's official portrait in the Academy of St Luke, Rome. 1. Acc. no. NG 2694; see F. Petrucci, Pittura di Ritratto a Roma. Il Seicento, Rome 2007, vol. III, p. 573, reproduced fig. 232.
Date circa 1675
Source https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/of-royal-and-noble-descent-l18306/lot.2.html
Author
Giovanni Battista Gaulli  (1639–1709)  wikidata:Q520573
 
Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Alternative names
Baciccio, Il Baciccio, Baciccia
Description Italian painter, sculptor, fresco painter and visual artist
Date of birth/death 8 May 1639 Edit this at Wikidata 2 April 1709 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Genoa Rome
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Genoa, Rome
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creator QS:P170,Q520573

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