‘I hope you, too, thought this was a picture of actual human beings. The fingers that slightly indent the flesh of a woman look normal, but it should not. This is a 400 year old sculpture made of marble.
Contemporaries used to describe the way Bernini worked as “raping marble” because he could do things to it, others were not even able to think of. Another sculpture of his, “Apollo and Daphne”, is just as remarkable because he managed to sculpt leaves that were so thin they became translucent…’
Bernini Sculpture: Pluto and Proserpina (1621-22)
(Source: neuronstarcollision, via strands)
