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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a year when the Rijksmuseum welcomed over 2.3 million visitors, a historic step was taken with the announcement of a new museum in Eindhoven. Apollo and Daphne, one of Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s first ...

The sensory riot of a show at the Galleria Borghese in Rome is a visual and scholarly triumph. Bernini, at the Galleria Borghese in Rome, is the long-awaited retrospective of the work of Gian Lorenzo ...

When an artist works on the scale of Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), who treated neighborhoods like Legos, you can lose the personal touch. After all, Bernini doesn’t need a museum exhibition — Rome ...

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 ...

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