The newly identified Bernini skull—as well as a painting showing Alexander resting his hand on the marble sculpture—is on view in Dresden through September 5.

Imposing but delicate marble sculptures of Graeco-Roman-style figures grace the vaulted corridors of a huge palace. Quellinus ...

Like that grand piazza, which Bernini designed in front of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, the enormous marble sculptures for which the artist is best known are for all practical purposes ...

I’m in Rome with my family to celebrate a milestone. We went to the Borghese Gallery this morning and I got to see my fa ...

Bernini’s sculptures often featured tension and drama ... points defining proportions for the much larger work in marble. The largest unbroken display area evokes the Bridge of Sant’Angelo ...

Ignore its rather bland, if elegant marble façade, step inside, and discover a riot of marble, gilding, sculptures and stucco angels. The walls of the narrow, short nave dissolve under the ...

The model—probably the “modella fatto da me” (model made by myself) referenced in an invoice from the artist in 1655—represented Bernini’s initial ideas for a marble statue for a ...