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 ...

Pedro de Mena, “Mater Dolorosa” (detail) (1674-85), partial-gilt polychrome wood, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Pedro de Mena, “Ecce Homo” and “Mater ...

What the Caesars left undone in Rome, one baroque genius, Gian Loren zo Bernini, tried in the 17th century to finish singlehanded. He was as famous in his day as Michelangelo had been in his, and ...

How did Baroque period artists/sculptors go about their craft? For the first time, researchers have performed a forensic anthropological analysis of a marble skull carved by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The ...

Pro-Vatican Baroque featured big canvases, dramatic statues, and exuberant architecture. After a century of religious wars, pro-Vatican Baroque art featured big canvases, dramatic statues, exuberant ...

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 ...

On Friday two tourists visiting the northern Italian city of Cremona broke part of an 18th-century sculpture they were climbing to take a selfie. The artwork, known as the “Statue of the Two Hercules, ...

The fear of corsairs, what ships to use and the type of insurance to take out were some of the preoccupations of the Order of St John when they had to bring to Malta the baroque works of art ...

Italian authorities are probing how one of Rome's most cherished landmarks, the elephant sculpture created by Baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, lost the tip of its left tusk - for the second time.

The most important collection of early European sculpture ever to come to auction, the Quentin collection is led by Giambologna’s riveting bronze- Mars, cast in his lifetime by his studio assistant.

How did Baroque period artists/sculputors go about their craft? For the first time, researchers have performed a forensic anthropological analysis of a marble skull carved by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The ...