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 ...

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 ...

The Baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680) left an everlasting mark on the Eternal City of Rome with his art. From fantastical fountains, such as “Four Rivers” in Piazza Navona, to 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 ...

The iconic Elephant and Obelisk monument in Rome, designed by Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, is seen without the tip of the left tusk on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026, after Police found an ...

Baroque master Gian Lorenzo Bernini's popular marble sculpture of an elephant in Rome's Piazza della Minerva was damaged over the weekend, with a four-inch fragment of the tip of one of its tusks ...

If artists as brilliant as Michelangelo and artworks as definitive as his “David” are rare, the year marking the 120th anniversary of that sculpture’s unveiling saw an event almost unparalleled in ...

Gian Lorenzo Bernini is perhaps the foremost sculptor of his time, and his monumental bronze and marble statues are the very epitome of early Baroque art. Before he and his workshop could create large ...

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 towering figure ...

In his sculpture of the mythological Daphne, who was transformed into a laurel tree by her father to elude the unwanted attentions of Apollo, Bernini showed Daphne's skin changing to bark, her toes ...

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.

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 ...