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 ...

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 ...

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 Essex Library presents historian, architect, and educator Chuck Benson, who explores the work of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, leading figure in Roman Baroque architecture and art in the 17th century, as ...

Bernini is back! Or at least he won't leave for a while longer. The Kimbell Art Museum announced Wednesday that "Bernini: Sculpting in Clay" will be extended three weeks beyond its original closing ...

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 ...

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 ...