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 ...

But when descendants of the 17th-century cardinal Flavio Chigi had thick layers of dark overpainting removed, they realised they owned an extraordinary sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini ...

In the mid-17th century, Pope Innocent X commissioned Gian Lorenzo Bernini—Rome’s premiere Baroque sculptor—to redecorate two of the fountains in the city’s famous Piazza Navona.