The recently restored Ponte Sant’Angelo in Rome features 10 angels holding symbols of Christ’s passion, creating a profound ...

Gian Lorenzo Bernini was said to have been only 8 when he carved a stone head that "was the marvel of everyone" who saw it, according to a contemporary biographer. He was not much older when he ...

Two popes who played instrumental roles in building the world's largest church now gaze at one another with renewed clarity ...

Pope Francis makes a surprise visit to greet restorers of Pope Urban VIII's tomb during a Jubilee Mass at St Peter's Basilica ...

The restoration work on the tombs of Pope Urban VIII, sculpted by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, and the basilica's founder, Pope Paul ...

The grandest domes of Europe and the narrow labyrinthine alleys of the districts, the splendor of noble palaces and the violent life of the streets, the courts of art-loving cardinal collectors ...

by the artist Pietro Bernini (father of the much more famous Gian Lorenzo Bernini). Members of the noble family that once owned this fragmentary Venus turned to their own generation’s artists to ...

The 15,000-square-metre interior hosts dozens of divine masterpieces and is dominated by Gian Lorenzo Bernini's famous 29-metre-high baldachin, a canopy supported by four spiral bronze columns.

Two art restorers were putting the final touches on a months-long restoration of the tomb of Pope Urban VIII, who in 1626 ...

ROME (AP) — Two art restorers were putting the final touches on a months-long restoration of the tomb of Pope Urban VIII, who in 1626 consecrated St. Peter’s Basilica, when the convalescing ...