Boy with a Dragon

Sculpture by Pietro Bernini and Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Boy with a Dragon

Artist| Pietro Bernini/Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Year| 1617 (1617)
Medium| White marble
Subject| Hercules
Location| Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Owner| Getty Museum
Accession| 1987

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Boy with a Dragon is a c. 1617 white marble sculpture, now in the Getty Museum, which has owned it since 1987. It draws on the myth of the infant Hercules strangling serpents sent to kill him.

It was carved by Pietro Bernini and his son Gian Lorenzo Bernini for Maffeo Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII). In 1702 Urban's grand-nephew Carlo Barberini presented the work to Philip V of Spain on the latter's entry into Naples.

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* http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/1155/pietro-bernini-and-gian-lorenzo-bernini-boy-with-a-dragon-italian-about-1617/
* https://books.google.com/books?id=u-i5ZGtbckMC&pg=PA77

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini

List of works

Sculpture|

| 1610s|

* The Goat Amalthea with the Infant Jupiter and a Faun
* Bust of Giovanni Battista Santoni
* A Faun Teased by Children
* Boy with a Dragon
* The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
* Saint Sebastian
* Bust of Pope Paul V
* Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius
* Bust of Giovanni Vigevano
* Damned Soul
* Blessed Soul
* Bust of Camilla Barbadoni

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1620s|

* Bust of Carlo Antonio del Pozzo
* Neptune and Triton
* The Rape of Proserpina
* Apollo and Daphne
* Bust of Pope Gregory XV
* St. Peter's Baldachin
* Charity with Four Children
* David
* Bust of Alessandro Peretti di Montalto
* Saint Bibiana
* Busts of Pope 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
* Busts of Cardinals Agostino and Pietro Valier
* Memorial to Carlo Barberini
* Tomb of Pope Urban VIII
* Saint Longinus
* Sleeping Hermaphroditus (mattress)

1630s|

* Statue of Carlo Barberini
* Two Busts of Cardinal Scipione Borghese
* Tomb of Countess Matilda of Tuscany
* Pasce Oves Meas
* Bust of Costanza Bonarelli
* Busts of Paolo Giordano and Isabella Orsini
* Statue of Pope Urban VIII
* Bust of King Charles I
* Bust of Thomas Baker
* Medusa

1640s|

* Bust of Cardinal Richilieu
* Memorial to Alessandro Valtrini
* Memorial to Ippolito Merenda
* Memorial to Maria Raggi
* Confessio of Santa Francesca Romana
* Raimondi Chapel
* Truth Unveiled by Time
* Bust of Pope Leo X
* Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
* Noli Me Tangere

1650s|

* Busts of Pope Innocent X
* Bust of Francesco I d'Este
* Corpus
* The Vision of Constantine
* Daniel and the Lion
* Habakkuk and the Angel
* Chair of Saint Peter
* Saints Jerome and Mary Magdalen

1660s|

* Statue of Alexander VII
* Busts of Alexander VII
* Statue of King Philip IV of Spain
* Elephant and Obelisk
* Angel with the Crown of Thorns
* Angel with the Superscription
* 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 Pope Clement X
* Bust of the Saviour

Architecture
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* St. Peter's Square
* Sant'Andrea al Quirinale
* Lateran Baptistery
* Palazzo Barberini
* Palazzo di Propaganda Fide
* Santa Bibiana
* Fountains of St. Peter's Square
* Fontana della Barcaccia
* Fontana del Tritone
* Fontana delle Api
* Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi
* Fontana del Moro

Paintings|

* Self-Portrait as a Young Man
* Portrait of Pope Urban VIII
* Saint Andrew and Saint Thomas
* Self-Portrait as a Mature Man
* Portrait of a Boy
* Christ Mocked

Related|

* Domenico Bernini (son)
* Pietro Bernini (father)
* Luigi Bernini (brother)

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