ROME — 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) — A new exhibition in Rome is celebrating one of the most important patron-artist relationships in European history, one that propelled a young prodigy named Gian Lorenzo Bernini into a ...

Pope Alexander VII commissioned the elephant sculpture to support an ancient Egyptian obelisk. Alvesgaspar via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 The tip of a beloved elephant statue’s tusk has ...

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.

Bernini and the pope who promoted him celebrated as Vatican marks 400 years of St. Peter's Basilica ROME (AP) — A new exhibition in Rome is celebrating one of the most important patron-artist ...