When I read Holland Carter’s near rhapsodic review, in the August 7th edition of The New York Times, of the current exhibit at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, “Bernini and the Birth of Baroque ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From his dramatic design for St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican City to his remarkably lifelike sculptures of popes and European nobility, 17th century artist and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini created ...

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 ...

On “Bernini: Sculpting in Clay,” at the Met. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Model for the Lion on the Four Rivers Fountain (Ca. 1649–50), Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome Photo by Zeno Colantoni, Rome; ...

For decades, it looked like an unremarkable old statue. But when descendants of the 17th-century cardinal Flavio Chigi had thick layers of dark overpainting removed, they realised they owned an ...

C.D. Dickerson III, Anthony Sigel, and Ian Wardropper. Metropolitan Museum of Art (Yale Univ., dist.), $65 (432p) ISBN 978-0-300-18500-3 To know and understand the work of Gian Lorenzo Bernini ...