By Alvise Armellini ROME, May 18 (Reuters) - An architectural plan to expand one of Rome's most famous museums, the Borghese ...

On Tuesday, Bernini obsessive Sir Loyd Grossman introduced us to a collection of some of his favourite artworks from 17th century baroque Rome. Delivered in his distinctive Bostonian drawl, we learnt ...

Polarity sits at the center of Valentino’s FW26/27 Interferenze collection, where order and structural irregularity coexist, animating both control and vulnerability. Courtesy of Valentino Courtesy of ...

From March 21 to July 31, 2026, the Imperiali Castle in Francavilla Fontana (Brindisi) is hosting the major exhibition "Baroque and Neo-Baroque from Rubens to Fontana." Among the works on display is ...

An exhibition in Rome traces how Pope Urban VIII backed the 25-year-old artist behind St. Peter’s soaring bronze canopy — and the decade-long project that helped define Baroque Catholicism. Altar of ...

TIVOLI, Italy (AP) — Long ago, when Romans wanted to build a new temple, they would head to the nearby quarries of Tivoli, chisel out blocks of porous rock called lapis tiburtinus — now known as ...

The Travertine Quarries That Built Ancient Rome Are Carving Rock for a New Generation of Temples TIVOLI, Italy (AP) — Long ago, when Romans wanted to build a new temple, they would head to the nearby ...

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. Police found ...

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 ...

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ritratto di Costanza Bonarelli 1637-1638 circa Marmo, h 74.5 cm Firenze (IT), Museo Nazionale del Bargello For the 400th anniversary of the consecration of the new Saint Peter’s ...