The Italian architect Bernini submitted a series of designs for the Louvre’s East wing in 1665. How would Paris look today if Louis XIV had commissioned him instead of turning his attention to ...

Journalists attend the press preview of the exhibition “Bernini and the Barberini” at Palazzo Barberini in Rome on Feb. 11, 2026, with the marble statues from The Four Seasons cycle by Pietro Bernini ...

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 many different arts he pursued—sculpture, architecture, painting, even playwriting—his works expressed ideas. Behind every Bernini masterpiece there lies a concetto, its governing concept or ...

ROME (AP) — A new exhibition in Rome is celebrating one of the most important patron-artist relationships in European history, one that propelled a young prodigy named Gian Lorenzo Bernini into a ...