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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Seashore with Sunrise before 1638 drawing (design for stage scenery) Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Palatial Interior ca. 1640 drawing (design for stage scenery) Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
"As the curtain rose for the first act, the stage was in darkness and the audience could see daylight gradually dawning – a lighting effect for which Bernini had long before designed special machinery. . . . Queen Christina was in the audience together with eighteen cardinals, and her enthusiasm was so great that she returned incognito to see the opera again. . . . From this time forward Queen Christina dominated Rome's theatrical world. During the carnival of 1669 she rented the present Palazzo Giraud Torlonia in the Borgo Leonino. The palace possessed a theatre at which Italian comedies were performed every Friday, and Spanish every Sunday, but only during carnival. Here, for instance, Filippo Acciaioli put on his comedy L'empio punito in the presence of twenty-six cardinals. To the delight of the audience Acciaioli excelled in the art of stage scenery, and his comedy required no less than ten different sets. . . . The princess of Rossano, still eagerly partaking in the fashionable pleasures, also put on comedies at her palace in the Corso."
– Torgil Magnuson, Rome in the Age of Bernini (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1982)
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Study for Fountain with Tritons ca. 1670 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Marine God with Dolphin 1652-53 drawing (study for fountain) Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Marine God with Dolphin 1652-53 drawing (study for fountain) Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Triton with Sea Serpent before 1642 terracotta (study for fountain) Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Triton with Shell before 1642 terracotta- (study for fountain) Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| workshop of Gianlorenzo Bernini Triton sounding a Conch ca. 1650 drawing (design for fountain component) Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| attributed to Gianlorenzo Bernini Design for Fountain supported by Tritons ca. 1640 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini David strangling a Lion 1631 drawing (title-page design for book of poems by Pope Urban VIII Barberini) Musée du Louvre |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Design for a Papal Tomb Monument ca. 1649 drawing Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Design for Tomb of Pope Alexander VII Chigi ca. 1670 drawing Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini St Jerome contemplating the Crucifix 1665 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini St Longinus ca. 1630-31 gilded terracotta statuette (modello for colossal marble statue in St Peter's Basilica, Rome) Harvard Art Museums |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Risen Christ 1673-74 bronze statuette (prototype for tabernacle figure in St Peter's Basilica, Rome) Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |