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Collection Online as of December 18, 2025

Medal Depicting Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) from the Illustrious Men of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

1830–34
sculptor
Diameter: 4.2 cm (1 5/8 in.)
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Naples was a center of medal and coinage minting for several centuries in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

Description

Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian sculptor, urban planner, architect, painter, set designer, and playwright during the Renaissance. He designed many churches, monuments, and the canopy over the high altar at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
  • Mrs. Jerome B. Zerbe, Cleveland.
  • "Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 5, no. 8/9 (1918): 82-85. Mentioned: p. 82 www.jstor.org
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1918.582