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From 3 June to 28 September 2025, the Palace of Versailles is presenting an exhibition focusing on the famous bust of Louis ...
Nearly 60 works from the famed Torlonia Collection are on view in Chicago.
Co-organized by the Art Institute and Rome-based Torlonia Foundation ... The Rijksmuseum has received an outstanding sculpture by the Italian artist Bernini on permanent loan from a private collector.
Santa Maria Maggiore also holds the remains of several other renowned figures, such as the architect and sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who designed St Peter's Square and its surrounding columns.
Whether you’re Catholic or not, it’s hard to argue with the fact that St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is an amazing feat of architecture and art ... artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini to be the ...
Gian Lorenzo Bernini was said ... architecture, painting, even playwriting—his works expressed ideas. Behind every Bernini masterpiece there lies a concetto, its governing concept or conceit.
Torlonia Foundation/Photo by Lorenzo De Masi Share Any temporary exhibition of ancient Roman sculpture at the Art Institute ... attributed to Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680).
After centuries in a private collection and hidden under a dense layer of overpainting, a Gian Lorenzo ... “Bernini had a huge influence on the development of sculpture as an art form in this ...
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 ...
A statue by Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo ... Bernini worked there and the statues he made for what is now the palace on Dam square were clearly inspired by the Italian artist’s work. Another ...
The keys to heavenBeneath Michelangelo’s great dome, the high altar of the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome is covered by a baldachin, a bronze canopy designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The altar is ...