Elephant and Obelisk

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, -600, Piazza della Minerva

‘Elephant and Obelisk’ is a work by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italy, 1598–1680). It is dated 600 BC. It is part of the collection Piazza della Minerva. Wikidata links the work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘The Baroque’.

It is made of rose granite. The things depicted include elephant.

The catalogue has 87 more works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

• The Baroque