The Rape of Proserpina
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The Rape of Proserpina, more accurately translated as The Abduction of Proserpina, is a large Baroque marble group sculpture by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, executed in 1621 and '22, when Bern
Rape of Prosepina September 2015 3a
Bust of Pope Paul V in the Galleria Borghese
Detail of Proserpina's thigh
Head of Proserpina, Cleveland Museum of Art
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian sculptor, architect, painter and city planner. Bernini's creative abilities and mastery in a range of artistic arenas define him as a uomo universale or Renaissance
The Rape of Proserpina
…Italian: Ratto di Proserpina), more accurately translated as The Abduction of Proserpina, is a large Baroque marble group sculpture by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, executed in 1621 and '22, when Bernini's career was in its early stage. The group, finished when Bernini was just 23 years old, depicts the abduction…
Self-portrait of Bernini, c. 1623, Galleria Borghese, Rome
Portrait of Pietro Bernini, father of Gian Lorenzo
Bust of Pope Paul V (1621–1622) by Bernini
Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius (1619)