A video capturing the incident shows the individual jumping onto the altar, removing the altar cloth, and kicking six gold ...

A man has caused minor damage at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after jumping onto the main altar and knocking over 19th ...

Mobile phone footage circulating on social media showed a man standing on the altar under the towering Baldachin canopy.

Security staff at the Vatican have apprehended a man after he jumped on to the main altar in St Peter’s Basilica and damaged ...

It is covered by the 29-meter (95-foot) Baldachin, comprising four bronze columns and a canopy by Italian sculptor Gian ...

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

You'll also find a number of impressive monuments, including one by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Fountain of the Four Rivers) and another by Francesco Borromini (Sant'Agnese in Agone). Though travelers ...

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 19 - Two youthful masterpieces by Baroque great Gian Lorenzo Bernini are on show at the Vatican Museums after leaving their previous hard-to-visit seat at the Spanish embassy to ...

But when descendants of the 17th-century cardinal Flavio Chigi had thick layers of dark overpainting removed, they realised they owned an extraordinary sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini ...

10 Facts About Rome's Trevi Fountain The Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini designed many of Rome's fountains, but the one in Piazza Navona is perhaps the most magnificent. The 17th-century ...

A man jumped on to the altar of St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, knocking off six candelabra worth €30,000 euros (about ...