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Proserpine Posterized…

13 Sunday Mar 2011

Posted by Satin & Sand in Art, Photography, Reflections, Travel

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Art, beautiful, Beauty, Bernini, Borghese Villa, Maksim Zaitsev, Photography, postaweek2011, Rape of Prosperine, Rome, Sculpture

© Olesya Aleksandronis

Pluto, god of the underworld, abducted Proserpine to be his queen and bride.

The woman’s fingers in the photograph above, brought to mind one of my favorite marble sculptures, Pluto and Proserpina (1621-22), by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the Galleria Borghese, Rome.

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Model – Maksim Zaitsev

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