Italy's culture minister called the incident "an absurd act of barbarity." The marble Elephant of the Obelisk of Santa Maria sopra Minerva by Bernini outside the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva.

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 ...

On Bernini’s Michaelangelo by Carolina Mangone. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, David, 1623–24, Marble, Galleria Borghese, Rome. Mangone goes beyond the usual formal analysis to look at Bernini’s work in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the Borghese Gallery, in Rome, when you first see Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Apollo catch up with Daphne, you would swear that her flesh is turning into a tree, although both she and the tree are made ...

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 ...