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Bernini’s Medusa sculpture shows Medusa amidst her transformation into a monster. Bernini’s depiction here is again heavily depicted by Ovid’s Metamorphosis. According to Ovid, Medusa was punished by Athena for having an affair with Poseidon in her…

The” Hermaphrodite” sculpture is one of Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s most famous restoration works. The figure radiates ambiguous seductiveness and intrigue. Hermaphroditus is shown sleeping down but different angles of the piece reveal the figure’s male…

The Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius sculpture was the first large modern sculpture to be exhibited at Borghese villa. The sculpture depicts a classic visual from the stories of the Trojan War. It shows Aeneas, the founder of Rome, leading his family…

Three different black and white pictures of Bernini's "Apollo and Daphne" sculpture. Bernini’s life-sized marble sculpture of “Apollo and Daphne” is regarded as one of his most powerful and emotional works. The work was commissioned in 1622 by…

Ceiling fresco by Pellegrino Tibaldi in Palazzo Poggi

Ceiling fresco by Mariano Rossi in the Galleria Borghese

“A Faun Teased by Children” is one of Bernini’s earliest works. The artist completed this work in 1616 when he was about eighteen years old. Bernini completed this small yet masterful sculpture under the supervision of his father

Ceiling fresco by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in the S. Maria di Nazareth, destroyed in 1915

Ceiling painting by Paolo Veronese, originally in the Palazzo Ducale

Ceiling painting by Paolo Veronese, originally in the Palazzo Ducale