A clay model for the Rio de la Plata segment of the Fountain of Four Rivers, in Rome. A model for a lion on the Fountain of Four Rivers. Bernini’s sculptures often featured tension and drama, as ...

The J. Paul Getty Museum‘s newest acquisition is a marble bust of Pope Paul V (1621) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini that art historians had long believed was lost. The two-and-a-half foot tall Bust of Pope ...

Two of the 17th century’s most drama-loving artists are paired together for the first time in a new exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The painter Caravaggio and the sculptor ...

The J. Paul Getty Museum is preparing for perhaps the most complete exhibit of Bernini busts ever displayed outside Italy, a benefit of settling its dispute over allegedly looted antiquities. The ...

Due to our recent pledge drive and the coverage of two political conventions, Art Talk has been off the air for a few weeks, so I wouldn't be surprised if you are starving for some good art news. I'm ...

Meridel Rubenstein, "Paul, Annabelle, and Paula, Medina," Chimayo, New Mexico, 1981, dye coupler print, part of the "Photographs From the Collection" exhibit on display Jan. 26-April 28, 2013. 214-565 ...

This post has been updated. Please see below for details. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has acquired its first work by the great Italian Baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini – the bust of an ...

This essay considers liveliness and playfulness in the work of Bernini as aspects of his purpose to celebrate and to lend credibility to conceits and constructions of the highest social significance.

Private donations have been requested to fund the purchase of an artwork. Rome -- The director of the art collection in Rome's jewel-like villa museum Galleria Borghese has launched a fundraising ...