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 ...
For decades, it looked like an unremarkable old statue. But when descendants of the 17th-century cardinal Flavio Chigi had thick layers of dark overpainting removed, they realised they owned an ...
New research has overturned conventional wisdom about the provenance of artist’s famed painting Adoration of the Shepherds ...
This fountain is the work of the renowned Italian Baroque sculptor, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Dating back to the 17 th century, the fountain showcases a powerful Triton blowing a force of water from a ...
A statue by Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini given on permanent ... Bernini is one of Italy’s most renowned Baroque sculptors and the acquisition is of “historical” importance, Rijksmuseum ...
Boasting a characteristic swath of dramatic details, Triton is the only sculpture by the Italian Baroque artist on view in the Netherlands. In the mid-17th century, Pope Innocent X commissioned ...