Prologue: 'Padre scultore'
Pietro Bernini and his studio
Father and son: Pietro and Gianlorenzo in partnership
Coming of age: the first portraits
The great mythological groups: Aeneas, Proserpina and Daphne
The patronage of Urban VIII Barberini
Popes and prelates: the mature portraits
Architect to St Peter's: the Baldacchino and Cathedra Petri
The papal tombs: Bernini and the Dance of Death
Mystic vision: the later religious sculpture
'Friend of the waters': Bernini's Roman fountains
Bernini's buildings: the sculptor as architect
England and France: Bernini, servant of Kings
Genius of the Baroque: talents and techniques
Epilogue: Bernini the man
life, death and reputation.
