The Essex Library presents historian, architect, and educator Chuck Benson, who explores the work of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, leading figure in Roman Baroque architecture and art in the 17th century, as ...

A clay model for the Rio de la Plata segment of the Fountain of Four Rivers, in Rome. A model for a lion on the Fountain of Four Rivers. Bernini’s sculptures often featured tension and drama, as ...

Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture Curators: Catherine Hess, Andrea Bacchi, Jennifer Montagu; Organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum in association with the National Gallery of Canada; ...

Arthur Lubow has worked as a staff writer for Newsweek, People, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, and for the last five years or so, as a freelancer, he has written mainly for the New York Times ...