White Rose Writes...

musée du louvre, parís - 2014

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598 – 1680)

Apollo and Daphne

Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers)

Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa

The Rape of Proserpina

Material: Marble and Eleusinian limestone

Acropolis, Erechtheian

Creator: Attributed to kallikrates

Work type: Architecture

Date: 421-405 BCE

Location: Athens, Greece

The size is huge and the figures are bigger than life size. The piece is very rough but that is because it is part of architecture. The figures were supposed to represent the women of Greece. Around 1800 one of the figures got taken away and moved to a mansion in Scotland then was sold to a British museum in London. There is a legend that at night you can hear the reaming 5 figures could be heard wailing for their lost sister and the rest were eventually moved to the Acropolis Museum in Athens

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