The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa transforms a Spanish nun, mystic, and writer, into one of the most famous emblems of the ...

The Triton sculpture now at the Rijksmuseum was created by Bernini as a study for the Fountain of the Moor on Rome’s Piazza Navona, commissioned by Pope Innocent X in the 1650s.

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 ...

The Bernini sculpture, which dates from the 1670s, will be the only one in a Los Angeles museum that’s solely attributed to him. Advertisement.

Created by Bernini in 1679 and crafted entirely out of marble, Salvator Mundi is a Baroque masterpiece and the last sculpture finished by the master carver before he died in 1680.

The new exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum, “Bernini: Sculpting in Clay,” takes us right into the 17th-century studio — and to some extent the mind — of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, ...

Bernini was a child prodigy, completing his first commission at 10. (A small marble figure of a chubby infant Hercules slaying a dragon, which Bernini began at the ripe old age of 16, is in the ...

Bernini had the ability to express very dramatic narrative scenes in his sculptures. He was able to capture intense psychological states and also to compose sculpture sets transmitting a ...

The exhibition, titled "Bernini's Moor: A Monumental Model for a Roman Fountain," displays the model alongside extensive information about the sculpture's history and recent conservation efforts. Just ...

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