The Rape of Proserpina - by Gian Lorenzo Bernini


Item Number: 133

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The Rape of Proserpina
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Executed between 1621 and 1622
Marble Galleria Borghese, Rome
Large scale Chiurazzi bronze of Bernini’s The Rape of Proserpina in It depicts Proserpina (Persphone) being seized and taken to the underworld by Pluto (Hades), depicting "rape" in its archaic definition of "kidnapping."

The Original Marble Rape of Proserpina sculpture by Bernini is housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome. The Bronze resides at Lorschville and was featured on Bravo’s Interior Therapy with Jeff Lewis.  


See the sculpture here: http://www.bravotv.com/interior-therapy-with-jeff-lewis/season-1/videos/feeling-the-love


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Kira & Robert H. Lorsch