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The Bust of Costanza Bonarelli is a marble portrait sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini created in the 1630s. It is housed in the Bargello Museum in Florence Italy. Considered among the most personal of Bernini’s work the bust depicts Costanza Piccolomini Bonarelli the wife of Matteo Bonarelli one of Bernini’s pupils and coworkers. Bernini fell passionately in love with her.