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‘Italy. The four great masters of the Baroque in Italy were Gian Lorenzo Bernini (died 1680), Francesco Borromini (died 1667[ce]), Pietro da Cortona (died 1669[ce]), and Guarino Guarini (died 1683[ce]). Bernini, also a brilliant sculptor, designed both the baldachin (an ornamental canopy-like structure) with bronze spiral columns* over the grave of St. Peter (1624[ce]) and the vast enclosing colonnade (1656[ce]) that forms the square of St. Peter's....’

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