One of the great periods of art history, Baroque Art was developed by Caravaggio, Annibale Carracci, and Gianlorenzo Bernini, among others.

Alessandro Algardi ( 31 July 1598 – 10 June 1654 ) was an Italian high-Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome, where for the latter decades of his life, he was the major rival of Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

The style was used in bronze by Bernini for his spectacular St. Peter's baldachin, actually a ciborium ( which displaced Constantine's columns ), and thereafter became very popular with Baroque and Rococo church architects, above all in Latin America, where they were very often used, especially on a small scale, as they are easy to produce in wood by turning on a lathe ( hence also the style's popularity for spindles on furniture and stairs ).

Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli ( 25 September 1599 – 3 August 1667 ), was an architect from Ticino who, with his contemporaries Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture.

Unlike Bernini who easily adopted the mantle of the charming courtier in his pursuit of important commissions, Borromini was both melancholic and quick in temper which resulted in him withdrawing from certain jobs, and his death was by suicide.

Probably because his work was idiosyncratic, his subsequent influence was not widespread but is apparent in the Piedmontese works of Camillo-Guarino Guarini and, as a fusion with the architectural modes of Bernini and Cortona, in the late Baroque architecture of Northern Europe.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini ( also spelled Gianlorenzo or Giovanni Lorenzo ) ( Naples, 7 December 1598 – Rome, 28 November 1680 ) was an Italian artist who worked principally in Rome.

A student of Classical sculpture, Bernini possessed the unique ability to capture, in marble, the essence of a narrative moment with a dramatic naturalistic realism which was almost shocking.

Bernini was also a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture along with his contemporaries, the architect, Francesco Borromini and the painter and architect, Pietro da Cortona.

His preferred architect was the sculptor and architect Gianlorenzo Bernini but he also gave architectural commissions to the painter and architect Pietro da Cortona.

He died in 1667, was memorialised in a spectacular tomb by Bernini, and was succeeded by Pope Clement IX ( 1667 – 69 ).

He expended vast funds to bring polymaths like Athanasius Kircher to Rome and on a variety of works by the sculptor Bernini who was particularly favored during Urban's reign.

* The church of Sant ' Andrea al Quirinale was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini ( 1658 – 1671 ), for Cardinal Camillo Pamphilii ( nephew of Pope Innocent X ); it is one of the most elegant samples of baroque architecture in Rome, with its splendid interior of marble, stuccoes, and gilded decorations.

It was a cultural powerhouse during the Baroque era as home to artists including Caravaggio, Rosa and Bernini, philosophers such as Telesio, Bruno, Campanella and Vico, and writers such as Battista Marino.

His marble portrait bust by Bernini was not considered a good likeness and was banished to a passageway.

The " Bernini Fountain ", a scaled copy of the fountain in Rome's Piazza Navona given to the 1st Duke, was placed on the second terrace by Duchene.

His biography of Gian Lorenzo Bernini was published in 1682.

Pietro da Cortona, also called Pietro Berrettini, born Pietro Berrettini da Cortona, ( 1 November 1596 / 716 May 1669 ) was the leading Italian Baroque painter of his time and, along with his contemporaries and rivals Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture.

* 1590s – Bernini and Borromini are born.

Bernini was born in Sesto Fiorentino, Tuscany.

Girolamo Rainaldi ( 1570 – July 15, 1655 ) was an Italian architect who worked on the whole in a conservative Mannerist style, often with collaborating architects, yet was a successful competitor of Bernini.

** Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor ( b. 1598 )

* December 7 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor ( d. 1680 )

* May 6 – Pietro Bernini, Italian sculptor ( d. 1629 )

Making a trip to Paris in 1665, Wren studied the architecture, which had reached a climax of creativity, and perused the drawings of Bernini, the great Italian sculptor and architect.

* In 1625, sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini finished his piece entitled Apollo and Daphne, taken from the episode in Book 1 in which Apollo, pierced by a love-inducing arrow from Cupid, pursues the fleeing nymph Daphne.

* 1680 in art-Death of Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor / architect

* December 7 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian Baroque sculptor and architect of 17th century Rome ( died 1680 )

* Edicola ( monumental niche, once housing a Madonna image ) of Lazzaro Morelli, a 1639 architecture attributed to sculptor Lazzaro Morelli, a disciple of Gianlorenzo Bernini.

The three principal architects of this period were the sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini, Francesco Borromini and the painter Pietro da Cortona and each evolved their own distinctively individual architectural expression.

Two of the foremost artistic figures of Baroque Rome were involved in the development of the architectural complex ; the sculptor and architect Gianlorenzo Bernini and the architect Francesco Borromini.

* Gianlorenzo Bernini ( Italian, 1598 – 1680 ) The dominant sculptor and architect of Counter Reformation Baroque

The Triton Fountain ( Italian Fontana del Tritone ) is a seventeenth century fountain in Rome, by the well-known Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

The masterpiece in the Cornaro Chapel, to the left of the altar, is Ecstasy of St. Teresa by Scipione's favored sculptor, Bernini.

It is a statue designed by the Baroque era sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini ( and carried out by his pupil Ercole Ferrata in 1667 ) of an elephant as the supporting base for the Egyptian obelisk found in the Dominicans ' garden.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, a sculptor from the Baroque period, made his bozzetti from wax or baked terracotta to show his patrons how the final piece was intended to look.

There is a copy of original Saint Peter's baldachin designed by the Italian sculptor and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

The white marble courtyard fountain is renaissance revival fountain based on one of the famous designs of the famous Italian sculptor Gianlo Renzo Bernini.

Pietro Bernini ( 6 May 1562 – 29 August 1629 ) was an Italian sculptor.

It was designed and completed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the leading sculptor of his day, who also designed the setting of the Chapel in marble, stucco and paint.

When Innocent acceded to the papal throne, he shunned Bernini ’ s artistic services ; the sculptor had been the favorite artist of the previous and profligate Barberini pope.