In the Borghese Gallery, in Rome, when you first see Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Apollo catch up with Daphne, you would swear that her flesh is turning into a tree, although both she and the tree are made ...
Thought to be by an anonymous painter, it has sat in the museum's storeroom since 1989.
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 ...
An exhibition in Rome traces how Pope Urban VIII backed the 25-year-old artist behind St. Peter’s soaring bronze canopy — and the decade-long project that helped define Baroque Catholicism. Altar of ...
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, "Bust of Costanza Buonarelli" (1636-7) alongside photographs by Ilaria Sagaria at the Uffizi Galleries. (image courtesy of Uffizi) Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s marble bust of Costanza ...
A life-sized marble skull that has for centuries sat in plain sight at a German castle turns out to actually be the work of artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The skull, sculpted from white Carrara marble, ...
“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 ...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — 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 ...
A new exhibition in Rome is celebrating one of the most important patron-artist relationships in European history, one that propelled a young prodigy named Gian Lorenzo Bernini into a towering figure ...
Gian Lorenzo Bernini was said to have been only 8 when he carved a stone head that "was the marvel of everyone" who saw it, according to a contemporary biographer. He was not much older when he ...
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