Bust of Cardinal Richelieu
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title:
Bust of Cardinal Richelieu
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The Bust of Cardinal Richelieu is a marble sculpture by the Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, situated at the Louvre in Paris. Richelieu had hoped to commission Bernini to make a full-length sculpture, through his friend Jules Mazarin and the French ambassador in Rome François Annibal d'Estrées, but Pope Urban VIII would not permit it, so the sculpture became a bust, sculpted by Bernini between November 1640 and January 1641. He worked from images of Cardinal Richelieu that had been sent to
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Sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bust_of_Cardinal_Richelieu
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2024-04-07T13:23:47Z
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