Which colossal statue in St. Peter’s Basilica was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini?

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Lorenzo Bernini: Apollo and Daphne — Gian Lorenzo Bernini *Apollo and Daphne*, marble sculpture by Lorenzo Bernini, 1622–25; in the Borghese Gallery, Rome.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini designed the colossal statue of St. Longinus for St. Peter’s Basilica.1

While Bernini supervised the decoration of the four piers supporting the dome of the basilica with colossal statues, St. Longinus is the only one among them that was designed by him.1