# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-01T09:20:50.772Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in 1598, Bernini arrived in Rome as a child and never left the center of power. His technical mastery and sheer inventiveness with marble put him so far ahead of his generation that scholars compared him to Shakespeare — the first sculptor whose name alone conjured a vision across Europe. He didn't stop at sculpture: he designed churches, chapels, public squares, fountains, funerary monuments, even lamps and coaches, and spent his nights writing, directing, and acting in Carnival satires for which he built the sets. What set him apart was his ability to fuse sculpture, architecture, and painting into a single conceptual whole, orchestrating space and stone as if conducting. He died in Rome in 1680, having spent eight decades reshaping the city and defining the Baroque itself.