Tag Archives: baroque
Requiem
by Olivier Valsecchi – 2014
The Deadly Sins
by Kris Kuksi
Pluto and Proserpina
Also known as The Rape of Proserpina is a large Baroque marble sculptural group by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, executed between 1621 and 1622. Bernini was only 23 years old at its completion. It depicts the Abduction of Proserpina, where Proserpina is seized and taken to the underworld by the god Pluto