Bernini: His Life and His RomeSculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (15981680) was the last of the great universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. And his artistic vision remains palpably present today, through the countless statues, fountains, and buildings that transformed Rome into the Baroque theater that continues