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The Bust of Giovanni Battisti Santoni is a sculptural portrait by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Believed to be one of the artist’s earliest works the bust forms part of a tomb for Santoni who was majordomo to Pope Sixtus V from 1590 to 1592. The work was executed sometime between 1613 and 1616 although some have dated the work as early as 1609 (when Bernini was ten years old) including Filippo Baldinucci.
