Letter from the poet Pietro Aretino to Michelangelo:
Does not my devotion deserve that I should receive from you, the prince of sculpture and of painting, one of those cartoons which you fling into the fire, to the end that during life I may enjoy it, and in death carry it with me to the tomb?
Symmonds, John Addington. "The Life of Michelangelo Buonarotti", Modern Library (New York), p. 332
According to Filippo Baldinucci, an eight-year-old Gian Lorenzo Bernini creates a "small marble head of a child that was the marvel of everyone".
Gian Lorenzo Bernini was commissioned by Scipione Borghese to making the buttoned mattress upon which the Hermaphroditus reclines, and was paid sixty scudi.
Giuliano Finelli is active in Bernini's studio for a few years, but breaks with Bernini in 1629, when he feels slighted by the awarding of the choice commission of a Saint Helena statue for the crossing of Saint Peters Basilica to Andrea Bolgi.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini finishes construction of the balconies required above the large niches in the pillars of Saint Peters Basilica for the exhibition on special occasions of the most venerated relics in the church.
Bernini... gave a public opera wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the engines, composed the music, writ the comedy, and built the theatre.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini began the preparatory work for Truth Unveiled by Time in 1645, during the critical period after the death of his main patron Pope Urban VIII, and the figure of Truth was largely complete by 1652.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini has drawings sent out to the quarry specifying the size of the marble blocks for the Tomb of Pope Alexander VII.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini begins working on a design and model of the Tomb of Pope Alexander VII and is paid one thousand scudi for the start of his work.
Domenico Bernini publishes a biography on his father, "Vita del Cavalier Gio. Lorenzo Bernini" in Rome.