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 ...

The J. Paul Getty Museum‘s newest acquisition is a marble bust of Pope Paul V (1621) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini that art historians had long believed was lost. The two-and-a-half foot tall Bust of Pope ...

“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 ...

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In the waning light of the Renaissance, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), born in Naples to the Mannerist sculptor Pietro Bernini and his wife Angelica Galante, revealed prodigious talent from ...

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 ...

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 ...

ROME — Italian police are investigating how one of Rome’s most beloved monuments, the elephant sculpture designed by Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, lost the tip of its left tusk — again.

David García Cueto, Arts History professor at the University of Granada, affirms that these two marble heads are not a representation of a Christian soul's personification enjoying the pleasures of ...