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The Statue of Urban VIII is a large statue from the late 1630s of the then pope Urban VIII. It was executed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and his workshop. The work was commissioned in 1635 and took five years to complete. The piece sits in the Palazzo dei Conservatori Roma. A print of the statue exists in the National Library of Austria.

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