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 ...

On Bernini’s Michaelangelo by Carolina Mangone. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, David, 1623–24, Marble, Galleria Borghese, Rome. Mangone goes beyond the usual formal analysis to look at Bernini’s work in 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 ...

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 ...

A clay model for the Rio de la Plata segment of the Fountain of Four Rivers, in Rome. A model for a lion on the Fountain of Four Rivers. Bernini’s sculptures often featured tension and drama, as ...

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 ...

From his dramatic design for St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican City to his remarkably lifelike sculptures of popes and European nobility, 17th century artist and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini created ...