VATICAN CITY -- Restorers put the finishing touches Tuesday on the ornate canopy covering the main altar in St. Peter's Basilica, which has been covered in scaffolding for months during the first ...

An exhibition in Rome traces how Pope Urban VIII backed the 25-year-old artist behind St. Peter’s soaring bronze canopy — and the decade-long project that helped define Baroque Catholicism. Altar of ...

But the exhibition, featuring loans from museums and private collections around the world, explores the origins of Bernini’s experience as a papal artist and architect. And it credits Urban with ...

Restoration work has begun on the baldacchino over the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Workers will scale the scaffolding surrounding the 92-feet-high canopy each ...

Popes accumulated and deployed art over the course of many centuries. Were they the ultimate art patrons in history?

Restorer Sante Guido (right) shows journalists the end of the restoration works of Bernini’s monumental bronze canopy on Tuesday, situated beneath Michelangelo’s massive dome, after the gleaming ...

After centuries in a private collection and hidden under a dense layer of overpainting, a Gian Lorenzo Bernini sculpture is finally coming to light at Rijksmuseum. Its arrival at the Amsterdam ...

Restorer Eleonora Di Vittorio works, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024, in front of a bronze statue of St John Chrysostom, right, part of the Cathedra of St. Peter's inside St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican ...

ROME(AP) — A new exhibition in Rome is celebrating one of the most important patron-artist relationships in European history, one that propelled a young prodigy named Gian Lorenzo Bernini into a ...

VATICAN CITY — Restorers put the finishing touches Tuesday on the ornate canopy covering the main altar in St. Peter’s Basilica, which has been covered in scaffolding for months during the first ...