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Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian painter, sculptor and architect . He was born in 1598 at Naples, Italy and died in 1680.
His marble group, Apollo and Daphne, secured him fame at the age of eighteen, and he was employed by Urban VIII to prepare plans for the embellishment of the Basilica of St Peter's. The belfry and bronze baldachino for the high altar of St Peter's, the front of the College de Propaganda Fide, the church of St. Andrea a Monte Cavallo, the palace Barberini, the model of the monument of the Countess Matilda, and the monument of Urban VIII are among his chief works.
He declined Mazarin's invitation to France in 1644; and though for a short time neglected after the death of his patron Urban VIII, he speedily regained his position under Innocent X and Alexander VII.
In 1665 he accepted the king's invitation to Paris, travelling thither in princely state and with a numerous retinue. After his return to Home he was charged with the decoration of the bridge of St. Angelo, the tomb of Alexander VIL.
He is credited with having created the baroque style of sculpture.
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A belfry was a movable tower erected by besiegers in war for purposes of attack and defence.
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Originally a belfry was a military siege tower which was pushed against the wall of a fortress being besieged so that missiles could be easily thrown down upon the defenders inside. Later the term was applied to a church steeple.
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In architecture, a deck floor is a floor which also serves as a roof, as of a belfry or balcony for example.
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In architecture louvre boards are the sloping boards set to shed rainwater outward in openings which are to be left otherwise unfilled, such as belfry windows (which are then known as louvre windows), the openings of a louvre, &c.
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Bats (shortened from bats in the belfry) is slang for mad; demented.
Bats is British navy slang for a deck-landing officer on an aircraft carrier.
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Bats in the belfry is slang for mad; demented.
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Belfry is British slang for the head.
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