Charity with Four Children (Bernini)

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Charity with Four Children
Artist	Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Year	1627–1628
Type	Terracotta
Dimensions	39 cm (15 in)
Location	Vatican Museum, Rome

Charity with Four Children is a sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Executed between 1627 and 1628, the work is housed in the Vatican Museum of Rome. The small sculpture in terracotta represents Charity breast-feeding a child, with three other children playing. There is an imprint of the artist's thumbprint in the clay.^[1]

References [edit]

^ Wittkower, Rudolf (1955). Gian Lorenzo Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroque. London: Phaidon Press.

External links [edit]

Web Gallery of Art

v t e Sculptural Works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

1610s	Bust of Giovanni Battista Santoni The Goat Amalthea with the Infant Jupiter and a Faun A Faun Teased by Children Martyrdom of St. Lawrence St. Sebastian Bust of Pope Paul V Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius Bust of Giovanni Vigevano Damned Soul Blessed Soul

1620s	Bust of Carlo Antonio del Pozzo Neptune and Triton The Rape of Proserpina Apollo and Daphne Three Busts of Pope Gregory XV St. Peter's Baldachin Charity with Four Children David Fontana della Barcaccia Bust of Alessandro Peretti di Montalto St Bibiana Busts of Urban VIII Bust of Monsignor Pedro de Foix Montoya Bust of Cardinal Roberto Bellarmine Bust of Cardinal Giovanni Dolfin Bust of Cardinal Escoubleau de Sourdis Bust of Antonio Cepparelli Bust of Cardinal Melchior Klesl Two Angels in Sant'Agostino Bust of Francesco Barberini Bust of Antonio Barberini Bust of Camilla Barbadoni Bust of Maria Barberini Bust of Cardinal Francesco Barberini Busts of Cardinals Agostino and Pietro Valier Memorial to Carlo Barberini Tomb of Pope Urban VIII Saint Longinus Charity with Two Children

1630s	Head of Carlo Barberini Two Busts of Scipione Borghese Fontana del Tritone Tomb of Countess Matilda of Tuscany Pasce Oves Meas Bust of Costanza Bonarelli Busts of Paolo Giordano and Isabella Orsini Statue of Urban VIII Bust of King Charles I Bust of Thomas Baker Medusa

1640s	Bust of Cardinal Richilieu Tomb of Alessandro Valtrini Memorial to Ippolito Merenda Memorial to Maria Raggi Truth Unveiled by TIme Bust of Pope Leo X Ecstasy of Saint Teresa Raimondi Chapel Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi Busts of Innocent X Noli Me Tangere

1650s	Francesco I d'Este Fountain of the Moor Tomb of Cardinal Domenico Pimentel The Vision of Constantine Chair of Saint Peter Saints Jerome and Mary Magdalen Saint Barbara

1660s	Statue of Alexander VII Busts of Alexander VII Memorial Chapel of De Silva Family Elephant and Obelisk Bust of Gabriele Fonseca Bust of Louis XIV Equestrian Statue of King Louis XIV

1670s	Blessed Ludovica Albertoni Tomb of Pope Alexander VII Statue of Clement X