In which year did Gian Lorenzo Bernini die?

Gian Lorenzo Bernini died in 1680.

Bernini died in Rome on 28 November 1680, at the age of 81. Born in Naples in 1598, he became the dominant sculptor of seventeenth-century Rome and also worked extensively as an architect, painter, and urban designer.

His career was closely tied to papal Rome. Major achievements included the baldachin over St Peter's tomb, the colonnade of St Peter's Square, the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, and the Four Rivers Fountain in Piazza Navona. His art fused sculpture, architecture, light, and theatrical movement in a way that became characteristic of the Roman Baroque.

Bernini's death came after decades of unusually sustained artistic influence. He was buried in the family vault at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, rather than in a grand monument of the kind he had designed for others. A frequent confusion is to place his death in the 1670s or 1690s; the standard date is 28 November 1680.