After centuries in a private collection and hidden under a dense layer of overpainting, a Gian Lorenzo Bernini sculpture is finally coming to light at Rijksmuseum. Its arrival at the Amsterdam ...

“Caravaggio & Bernini: the discovery of emotions” at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna: installation view (all images courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna) VIENNA — All that remains of the ...

Gian Lorenzo Bernini is perhaps the foremost sculptor of his time, and his monumental bronze and marble statues are the very epitome of early Baroque art. Before he and his workshop could create large ...

Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro Bernini, “Head of Saint Jerome” (ca. 1661). Terracotta, 13 13/16 x 11 5/16 x 9 inches. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Alpheus Hyatt ...

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Thursday unveiled plans for a yearlong restoration of the monumental baldacchino, or canopy, over the main altar of St. Peter's Basilica, pledging to complete the work on ...

View Bronze Between 1624 and 1626 Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598- 1680) made the sculpture in “Santa Bibiana” marble commissioned by Pope Urban VIII as part of the renovation of his homonymous church in ...

In his sculpture of the mythological Daphne, who was transformed into a laurel tree by her father to elude the unwanted attentions of Apollo, Bernini showed Daphne's skin changing to bark, her toes ...

In St. Peter's Square, in the shadow of the 17th-century colonnade designed by Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, stands the 20-foot-tall bronze sculpture "Angels Unawares" as a reminder of the ...