Self-Portrait as a Young Man
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Title
Self-Portrait as a Young Man
Description
Gian Lorenzo Bernini's oil painting self-portrait. This is one of Bernini's most famous paintings.
Creator
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Source
Wittkower, Rudolf. Gian Lorenzo Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroque. London: The Phaidon Press, 1966.
Dickerson, Claude Douglas, Anthony Sigel, Ian Wardropper, Andrea Bacchi, Tomaso Montanari, Steven F. Ostrow, and A. Lawrence Jenkens. Bernini: Sculpting in Clay. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012.
Montagu, Jennifer. “Bernini and the Unity of the Visual Arts.” The Burlington Magazine 124, no. 949 (1982): 240–43. http://www.jstor.org/stable/880696.
Dickerson, Claude Douglas, Anthony Sigel, Ian Wardropper, Andrea Bacchi, Tomaso Montanari, Steven F. Ostrow, and A. Lawrence Jenkens. Bernini: Sculpting in Clay. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012.
Montagu, Jennifer. “Bernini and the Unity of the Visual Arts.” The Burlington Magazine 124, no. 949 (1982): 240–43. http://www.jstor.org/stable/880696.
Publisher
Unknown patron.
Self-portrait as a young man by Bernini, Gian Lorenzo. Accessed December 7, 2021. https://www.wga.hu/html_m/b/bernini/gianlore/painting/selfpor1.html.
Self-portrait as a young man by Bernini, Gian Lorenzo. Accessed December 7, 2021. https://www.wga.hu/html_m/b/bernini/gianlore/painting/selfpor1.html.
Date
1623
Contributor
Sofia Silvosa
Format
38 x 30 cm
Type
Oil on Canvas
Coverage
Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy
Files
Collection
Citation
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, “Self-Portrait as a Young Man,” ARTHIST 256 - Italian Baroque Art - Fall 2021, accessed October 22, 2026, https://www.baroque.dahvc.org/fall-2021/items/show/355.