The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 31
ratory withsuccess, and made the same use of his talents as of hisfortune ; that is to say, by directing it to the assistanceof the necessitous. He died at an advanced age, in themidst of his noble occupations. Pleading one day thecause of one of his friends, and having apparently ex-hausted the… … ■• Ridouan. BERNINI. Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, who was born atNaples, in 1598, acquired from his Father, who was aFlorentine artist, the first elements of his art, and wentwith him to Rome,with a view to perfect himself. Naturehad made him a sculptor, for, at ten years of age, he pro-duced a head…
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