This was carved from a single block of marble by a 23 year old in 1622.Bernini turned stone into flesh...The sculpture is called the Abduction of Proserpina, and it depicts the moment described in Ovid's Metamorphoses, when the goddess Proserpina was gathering flowers in a meadow and the earth opened beneath her. Pluto, king of the underworld, rose from the dark to take her.Out of every instant in that abduction, Bernini chose the one when her feet leave the ground.She is suspended in his arms.

An ancient technique for lifting giant stone blocks using a Lewis tool

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