That is Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s masterpiece, The Rape of Proserpina (aka The Abduction of Proserpina), created between 1621 and 1622 when Bernini was only 23 years old. It’s in the Galleria Borghese in Rome.
Art historians call it Baroque drama, the mythological scene where Pluto (Hades), the god of the Underworld, abducts Proserpina (Persephone) to the realm of the dead, while Cerberus—the three-headed hound—barks at their feet.
In ancient myths, rape is meant to mean “to seize," "to snatch," or "to carry away by force."
