Must-see paintings and sculptures

Must-see paintings and sculptures

Apollo Belvedere – the greatest work of art from among all the works of antiquity

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Benrnini’s Apollo and Daphne – a rock animated by love

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Bernini’s David – a sculpture testifying to the power of faith and humility

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Bernini’s The Ecstasy of St. Teresa – an anthem on the subject of bodily union with God

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Gaul Killing Himself and his Wife – meaning, praise of an honorable suicidal death

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Laocoön Group – the dramatic story of one arm and its lack

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Jacopo Sansovino’s Madonna del Parto – between a saint and a maid

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Andrea Sansovino’s Madonna and Child with St. Anne – a work praised by poets

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Michelangelo’s Moses – the remains of a tragic work

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Michelangelo’s Nude Christ – miraculously duplicated

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Domenico Guidi’s The Lamentation – dramatic pathos, a throng of people, and movement

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Antonio Canova’s Pauline Borghese as the Venus Victrix – remember me like this for ages

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Michelangelo’s Pietà – an astonishing story of silent suffering

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s The Rape of Proserpina, meaning sanctioned rape

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Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius – a symbol of imperial harmony and peace

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Ludovica Albertoni – a masterpiece in the shadow of a moral scandal

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Bernini’s Statue of St. Bibiana – meaning how to present a virgin in the moment of bliss

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Stefano Maderno’s Lying St. Cecilia – a miracle or an elaborate mystification?

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The Triumph of Religion Over Heresy by Pierre Le Gros – meaning a Jesuit theatrum sacrum

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Sleeping Hermaphrodite – the ever-present third gender

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Dying Gaul – a funeral rhapsody in memory of the Gauls

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Wenus Knidyjska – wizerunek skromnej, zawstydzonej hetery

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Crouching Venus – eavesdropped on for the last two thousand years

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The Vestal Virgin Tuccia – between virtue and downfall, meaning the story of an unwanted work