Uncertainty over whether the seat of the papacy would remain in the city explains why Rome was a late developer when it came ...

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 ...

This documentary explores how Pope Urban II’s speech at Clermont ignited the First Crusade and reshaped medieval Europe. Urban’s call responded to political tensions, religious anxieties, and appeals ...

ROME — Sculptor and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini was essential to the appearance of Baroque Rome, and Pope Urban VIII Barberini was essential to Bernini. In many ways, the exhibition Bernini e i ...

(RNS) — Pope Leo has decided to resume the papal tradition of taking vacations at Castel Gandolfo on the shore of Lake Albano 16 miles southeast of the Vatican. I for one am delighted. I mean, I loved ...

When the most powerful collector in the world gets behind a hot young artist, art history can get made. This is what happened in 1623, when the newly elected Pope Urban VIII summoned the 25-year-old ...

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 ...