Bust of Cardinal Melchior Klesl

Bust of Cardinal Melchior Klesl
Epitaph of Cardinal Melchior Klesl
Artist	Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Year	1626
Catalogue	22
Type	Sculpture
Medium	Marble
Location	Wiener Neustadt Cathedral, Wiener Neustadt
Preceded by	St. Peter's Baldachin
Followed by	Two Angels in Sant'Agostino

The Bust of Cardinal Melchior Klesl is a life-size marble bust of the seventeenth-century cardinal by Gianlorenzo Bernini and his assistants, notably Giuliano Finelli. It was probably executed in 1626. It is unclear how much of the work was executed by Bernini and how much by Finelli, or indeed others in Bernini's studio. The sculpture is part of Klesl's tomb in the cathedral of Wiener Neustadt, just south of Vienna.^[1][2]