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 ...

Two of the 17th century’s most drama-loving artists are paired together for the first time in a new exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The painter Caravaggio and the sculptor ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...