Signal A Running Record of Findings from the Internet / August 20, 2026

A Bernini Painting Spent 37 Years Hidden in a Museum Storeroom

The Kunsthistorisches Museum's Portrait of an Old Man sat unattributed in storage since 1989. Curator Gudrun Swoboda now argues its sculptural brushwork and facial modeling point to Gian Lorenzo Bernini, one of fewer than twenty paintings ever authenticated to the Baroque master.

Read the story By Martin Bailey · The Art Newspaper
Portrait of an Old Man, newly attributed to Bernini, has been in the Kunsthistorisches Museum's collection for more than a century
Portrait of an Old Man, newly attributed to Bernini, has been in the Kunsthistorisches Museum's collection for more than a century
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