Nine months after the start of the restoration work, the baldachin will be unveiled for a Mass celebrated by Pope Francis Oct ...

MORE than two dozen popes have celebrated Mass under the giant canopy that rises over the main altar of St Peter’s Basilica, ...

Restorers have put the finishing touches on the ornate canopy covering the main altar in St. Peter’s Basilica, which has been ...

Pope Urban VIII commissioned Bernini in 1624 to design and build the enormous canopy over the Papal Altar of the Confession, ...

At Lehman Maupin gallery in London, the artist Dominic Chambers is showing paintings and works on paper that explore moments ...

One of Bernini’s earliest surviving sculptures, The Goat Amalthea (c. 1609-1615), which depicts a reclining goat feeding the infant Jupiter, has made it to Paris, as has his striking Self ...

This featured chapel from Dan Brown's "Angels & Demons" is ... for a look at Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Cornaro Chapel, which features the Ecstasy of St. Teresa statue. Recent visitors can't stop ...

Experts conducting the first renovation in 250 years of a towering altar canopy in the Vatican provided a sneak peek of their progress on Tuesday, with centuries-old gilding glowing anew. A photo ...

There's a song that is inspired by the Bernini sculpture the Ecstasy Of Saint Teresa ... (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "HAVE YOU EVER SEEN AN ANGEL") MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND: (Singing) Have you ever seen ...

“It’s Bernini’s baldacchino … It’s a singular masterpiece of sacred art — one which is instantly ... up the throne of St. Peter with gilded angels high above the petrine throne ...