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 ...

A once-overlooked terracotta figure sculpted by Bernini in 1653 has been acquired by Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. Boasting a characteristic swath of dramatic details, Triton is the only sculpture by the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...