Gian Lorenzo Bernini

The Rape of Proserpina

The Rape of Proserpina

A large Baroque marble group sculpture by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, executed between 1621 and 1622

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“The illusion of fleshlike compressibility in the marble is really something”
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Katherine
“Photos don’t do it justice! Walking around this sculpture feels like going inside a movie and walking around a freeze frame.”
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