Journalists attend the press preview of the exhibition “Bernini and the Barberini” at Palazzo Barberini in Rome on Feb. 11, 2026, with the marble statues from The Four Seasons cycle by Pietro Bernini ...
In his sculpture of the mythological Daphne, who was transformed into a laurel tree by her father to elude the unwanted attentions of Apollo, Bernini showed Daphne's skin changing to bark, her toes ...
In 'The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa,' the spiritual and sexual collide. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1645 and 1652). Cornaro Chapel at the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome. In Gian ...
ROME (AP) — Italian police are investigating how one of Rome’s most beloved monuments, the elephant sculpture designed by Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, lost the tip of its left tusk — again.
ROME (AP) — Italian police are investigating how one of Rome’s most beloved monuments, the elephant sculpture designed by Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, lost the tip of its left tusk — again.