The first thing people tend to do when they talk about Rome is moan about it. “It’s full of tourists,” they cry. “The Trevi ...

Some 50,000 people visit St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City daily. The 500-year-old structure, with its 448-foot-high dome, ...

Nearby, along Via Sant’Eustachio, I usually marvel at the window displays of goldsmith and jeweller Diego Percossi Papi, whose creations blend the traditional art of enamelling and carved stones with ...

An outsized history as the seat of the Catholic Church brings with it an incredible collection of art and architecture.

It’s the most boring and thankfully also the shortest month of the year. Don’t worry. There is plenty to perk you up and ...

F or centuries, Rome, Italy, has been a city of great importance. Once the center of the ancient Roman empire, today it’s one ...

Someone once described the fair to director Helen Allen as “a galaxy of colliding worlds,” and she says that description particularly apt.

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 ...

Laura Itzkowitz The centuries-old Piazza Navona is perhaps one of the best-known public squares in Rome. People sipping ... including one by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Fountain of the Four Rivers ...

The Triton sculpture now at the Rijksmuseum was created by Bernini as a study for the Fountain of the Moor on Rome’s Piazza Navona, commissioned by Pope Innocent X in the 1650s. In it ...

Many Dutch sculptors traveled to Rome in the 17th century ... which glides on the shell, toward the larger Fountain of the Four Rivers, Bernini’s masterpiece, in the center of the square. Water ...