raved Taco Dibbits, the museum’s director, in a statement. “Bernini had a huge influence on the development of sculpture as an art form in this country, as elsewhere.” While Bernini was also ...

The Rijksmuseum has received an outstanding sculpture by the Italian artist Bernini on permanent loan from a private collector. It is the only sculpture by this world-renowned Baroque sculptor in the ...

The museum’s senior curator of sculpture, Frits Scholten, said the piece is an important link to the thought process of Bernini, who was an architect as well as an artist and lived from 1598 to ...

it is said that Bernini stood in front of a mirror and let his hand be burned by the fire of a candle: from there the artist created the sketch as a model for the work. Whether reality or legend ...

Rome, October 30 - The universal talents of Baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini - sculptor, painter, architect, and urban planner - are at the heart of a new exhibition featuring the 17th-century ...

A statue by Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini given on permanent loan by a private owner has been put on display at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The statue, of the mythical sea creature Triton, ...

This particular Bernini sculpture went unnoticed for centuries, having long disappeared into an Italian family’s private art collection. The family descended from Cardinal Flavio Chigi ...

From Ancient Rome to the Renaissance and Rococo, the timeless appeal of the Apollo and Daphne myth spans centuries of artistic expression.