Rome’s Bernini elephant sculpture loses tip of its tusk – again

The Elephant and Obelisk monument in Rome, designed by Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, without the tip of the left tusk (Cecilia Fabiano/Lapresse via AP)

Italian police are investigating how one of Rome’s most beloved monuments, the elephant sculpture designed by Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, lost the tip of its left tusk – again.

Police found the 11-centimetre (4in) marble fragment near the statue over the weekend.