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 ...

Popes accumulated and deployed art over the course of many centuries. Were they the ultimate art patrons in history?

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 ...

NOTHING would seem more dull than an exhibition of portrait busts, those stone-faced dust-catchers representing obscure generals, long-dead clergymen, government functionaries and preening aristocrats ...

When an artist works on the scale of Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), who treated neighborhoods like Legos, you can lose the personal touch. After all, Bernini doesn’t need a museum exhibition — Rome ...

“Bernini and the Barberini,” which opens Thursday, explores the complex relationship between Bernini and Pope Urban VIII, who ruled from 1623-1644. Urban is credited with discovering Bernini and, with ...

ROME (AP) — 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.

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco extend their recent run of outstanding loan exhibitions from Europe with a single-object show: Gianlorenzo Bernini's "Medusa" at the Legion of Honor. The ...

This post has been updated. Please see below for details. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has acquired its first work by the great Italian Baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini – the bust of an ...