The recently restored Ponte Sant’Angelo in Rome features 10 angels holding symbols of Christ’s passion, creating a profound ...

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 ...

Two popes who played instrumental roles in building the world's largest church now gaze at one another with renewed clarity ...

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 ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute ... by the artist Pietro Bernini (father of the much more famous Gian Lorenzo Bernini). Members of the noble ...

The grandest domes of Europe and the narrow labyrinthine alleys of the districts, the splendor of noble palaces and the violent life of the streets, the courts of art-loving cardinal collectors ...

The two sculptures were created in 1619 ... explains the curator of the exhibition Helena Pérez Gallardo, it is said that Bernini stood in front of a mirror and let his hand be burned by the ...

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.

Scientists have succeeded in reconstructing the face of Saint Teresa of Jesus, one of the most influential figures of Spanish Catholicism to mark the 510th anniversary of her birth. This innovative ...

Revered throughout Spain,** her image has been immortalised in masterpieces such as "The Ecstasy" by the Italian sculptor Bernini and a portrait by Rubens or on this infamous wood carving by El Greco.