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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Bust of Monsignor Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo 1620 marble Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Posthumous Bust of Pope Paul V Borghese 1621 marble (commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese) Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Anonymous copyist after Gianlorenzo Bernini Head of Proserpina ca. 1770-1800 marble (adaptation of original, 1621-22) Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Posthumous Bust of Monsignor Francesco Barberini ca. 1623 marble (uncle of Pope Urban VIII Barberini) National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Bust of Cardinal Scipione Borghese 1632 marble Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Bust of Thomas Baker ca. 1638 marble Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Head of Medusa ca. 1638-48 marble Musei Capitolini, Rome |
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| Anonymous copyist after Gianlorenzo Bernini Head of Medusa ca. 1775-1800 marble (adaptation of original, ca. 1638-48) Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Bust of Francesco I d'Este 1650-51 marble Galleria Estense, Modena |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Bust of Pope Alexander VII Chigi ca. 1657 bronze Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Bust of Louis XIV 1665 marble (carved in Paris) Château de Versailles |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Bust Portrait of a Gentleman ca. 1670-75 marble Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Bust of the Savior ca. 1679 marble (commissioned in Rome by Queen Christina) Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| workshop of Gianlorenzo Bernini Portrait Head of Gianlorenzo Bernini ca. 1680-90 terracotta Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Bernardo Fioriti Bust of Gianlorenzo Bernini ca. 1660 marble Philadelphia Museum of Art |
"Despite the economic depression we have just been describing, the art of the High Baroque reached its culmination in the course of the new pontificate [that of Alexander VII Chigi, reigned 1655-1667]. It was during the 1660s that some of the greatest and most significant monuments of the Roman Baroque were built, and painting and sculpture flourished at least as vigorously as they had done under Urban VIII [reigned 1623-1644]. What produced this flowering is not altogether clear. . . . Immeasurably important was the presence in Rome of a genius of the calibre of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who was able to combine supreme creative gifts with an ability to organise a large studio and to direct and train a team of artists. The role that Bernini played in Rome would become fully apparent after his death in 1680, when many artists were left without the firm and steady guidance he had so long provided."
– Torgil Magnuson, Rome in the Age of Bernini (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1982)