Get Ready for Rome

47, Bernini Meets Ovid in the Villa Borghese


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We visit the Galleria Borghese and focus on two sensual statues sculpted by Gianlorenzo Bernini, both based on stories told by the old Latin poet Ovid. Both were commissioned by the Borghese family which then also held the papacy and was helping to build the new St. Peter's Basilica. How do Ovid and these two statues fit into the Catholic worldview that was then being expressed in the new basilica? Or don't they?

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Get Ready for RomeBy Wayne Ambler

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