A quick search for “things to see in Paris” will provide you instantly with a list of world-famous buildings, from Notre-Dame to the Eiffel Tower. But topping those lists is, invariably, the Louvre, ...

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 Essex Library presents historian, architect, and educator Chuck Benson, who explores the work of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, leading figure in Roman Baroque architecture and art in the 17th century, as ...

Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture Curators: Catherine Hess, Andrea Bacchi, Jennifer Montagu; Organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum in association with the National Gallery of Canada; ...

From his dramatic design for St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican City to his remarkably lifelike sculptures of popes and European nobility, 17th century artist and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini created ...

Arthur Lubow has worked as a staff writer for Newsweek, People, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, and for the last five years or so, as a freelancer, he has written mainly for the New York Times ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The sculptor, draughtsman, playwright, architect and painter Gianlorenzo Bernini was also a master manipulator. From ...