Of Rome's estimated 2,000 fountains, the most beloved appear in settings that seem exquisitely well suited, almost designed, for them. The Trevi Fountain spreads across a long side of an oblong ...

People pose for photos in front of Italian sculptor Bernini's Barcaccia fountain, just next to the Spanish steps, in Rome, Monday, June 12, 2017. City hall on Monday announced that Mayor Virginia ...

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 ...

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Two historic Roman attractions by Gian Lorenzo Bernini have been recently restored: St Peter’s Colonnade (1656–1673) in St. Peter’s Square, and the Fontana del Tritone, or Triton’s Fountain (1643), in ...

The custom of early Rome was to terminate aqueducts at a beautiful fountain. This was revived during the Renaissance when Pope Urban VIII in 1629 asked Bernini to sketch a possible fountain. A ...

In homage to Bernini, James Grashow has made a Baroque fountain, inspired particularly by Rome’s Trevi Fountain. But where the Trevi Fountain is made of stone, sturdy and likely to be permanent, ...