A change in popes — through death or resignation — is a complicated process, with centuries-old rituals involving the ...

Grief and tributes for Pope Francis were shared around the world Tuesday, a day after the popular pontiff died at age 88.

Whether you’re Catholic or not, it’s hard to argue with the fact that St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is an amazing feat of ...

In the birthplace of Italian sculpture, a powerful automated machine ... have been drawn to Carrara in the centuries since, from Bernini, Canova and Rodin to Jean Arp and Henry Moore.

Sixty years later, my heart is still filled with wonder and happiness from seeing Michelangelo's sculpture, one of the ...

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 ...

Likely the artist’s final work, this 16th-century painting is a vast, darkly burnished depiction of Christ’s death that is ...

Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA On the opposite side, an angel holds the crown of thorns placed on Christ’s head, sculpted by Paolo Naldini and completed by Bernini himself. The original sculpture ...

This long, late flowering—ending only with his death, probably still short of 90, in 1576—helped make him Western art’s great forerunner, anticipating and influencing everyone from Rembrandt ...