Wallemähne, Faltenwurf und Spitzenkragen bei Berninis Büste "Thomas Baker" sind

prächtig. The bust was apparently completed by an assistant after Bernini was

ordered by Pope Urban VIII to stop work; wollte dass nur 1 Büste von Karl I als sein

Geschenk nach London geht.

Thomas Baker accompanied the famous Van Dyck triple-portrait of Charles I to Rome

where Bernini was charged with making a marble portrait bust from it in 1639

(zerstört), but Baker bribed Bernini to make his own bust. When Pope Urban VIII

heard of this, he forbade the sculptor to continue because his talents were too