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 ...

In 'The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa,' the spiritual and sexual collide. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1645 and 1652). Cornaro Chapel at the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome. In Gian ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...