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 ...

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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.

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...