Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). Bernini, Pluto and Persephone, ca. 1621

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Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)

Bernini, Pluto and Persephone, ca. 1621.

Top: Rape of Pesephone, tomb painting, 4th c. B.C.E.,Vergina.

Bottom: Rape of Persephone, Roman sarcophagus, 3rd c. C.E.

“Charioteer” from Motya, Sicily, 460-440 B.C.E., discovered in 1979.

Bernini, Apollo and Daphne, 1622-25.

Apollo and Daphne, Roman mosaic, 2nd-3rd c. C.E.

Bernini, David, 1623.

Borghese Gladiator, copy (ca. 100 C.E.) of an original of the 3rd century BC, found in Anzio, Latium.

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