El rapto de Propersina                           

         

The Rape of Proserpina. It is a sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini between 1621 and 1622 belonging, therefore, to Baroque.

In this century 17th was a very important crisis because the wars, plagues...For example the more important war in the century was the war of 30 years that was a Religious war between the catholics and the protestants. In this century kings Felipe III, Felipe IV and Charles II (minor austrias)is called minors because end the riches empire in Spain. In this century kings the validos that do the work of the king with the same power.




It was commissioned by Scipione Borghese, who gave it to Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi in 1622, who took her to his villa. He remained there until 1908, when the Italian state acquired it and returned it to the Galleria Borghese.




As for the composition is a vertical line which three arms horizontally opposed, both of God and one of the young. Pluto hands sink into the smooth body of the young and meat yields under pressure. Eyebrow God is deformed under the thrust of the hand of the goddess. At the foot of the cerbero can estuatua, the monstrous animal that guards the gates of the kingdom of Pluto. It is one of the most naturalistic images of the history of sculpture.